History Teaches Us That Man Learns Nothing

The True Is The Whole.

Public Opinion Contains All Kinds Of Falsity And Truth, But It Takes A Great Man To Find The Truth In It. The Great Man Of The Age Is The One Who Can Put Into Words The Will Of His Age, Tell His Age What Its Will Is, And Accomplish It. What He Does Is The Heart And The Essence Of His Age, He Actualizes His Age. The Man Who Lacks Sense Enough To Despise Public Opinion Expressed In Gossip Will Never Do Anything Great.

In The Case Of All Other Sciences, Arts, Skills, And Crafts, Everyone Is Convinced That A Complex And Laborious Programme Of Learning And Practice Is Necessary For Competence. Yet When It Comes To Philosophy, There Seems To Be A Currently Prevailing Prejudice To The Effect That, Although Not Everyone Who Has Eyes And Fingers, And Is Given Leather And Last, Is At Once In A Position To Make Shoes, Everyone Nevertheless Immediately Understands How To Philosophize.

Life Has Value Only When It Has Something Valuable As Its Object.

In The Soul Is The Awaking Of Consciousness: Consciousness Sets Itself Up As Reason, Awaking At One Bound To The Sense Of Its Rationality: And This Reason By Its Activity Emancipates Itself To Objectivity And The Consciousness Of Its Intelligent Unity.