In Duty The Individual Acquires His Substantive

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.

The State Is The Absolute Reality And The Individual Himself Has Objective Existence, Truth And Morality Only In His Capacity As A Member Of The State.

Destiny Is Consciousness Of Oneself, But Consciousness Of Oneself As An Enemy.

What Is Reasonable Is Real; That Which Is Real Is Reasonable.

It Is Solely By Risking Life That Freedom Is Obtained; . . . The Individual Who Has Not Staked His Or Her Life May, No Doubt, Be Recognized As A Person; But He Or She Has Not Attained The Truth Of This Recognition As An Independent Self-consciousness.