In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.