The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

The moment is the sole reality.