No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
There are Plebes in all classes.
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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