Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

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.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.