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.

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.

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

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.