Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

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

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought