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.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

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