All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

You can only govern men by serving them.