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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
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.
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.
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