Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.