Reading The Morning Newspaper Is The Realist's

The Sole Work And Deed Of Universal Freedom Is Therefore Death, A Death Too Which Has No Inner Significance Or Filling, For What Is Negated Is The Empty Point Of The Absolutely Free Self. It Is Thus The Coldest And Meanest Of All Deaths, With No More Significance Than Cutting Off A Head Of Cabbage Or Swallowing A Mouthful Of Water.

The Courage Of The Truth Is The First Condition Of Philosophic Study.

We Do Not Need To Be Shoemakers To Know If Our Shoes Fit, And Just As Little Have We Any Need To Be Professionals To Acquire Knowledge Of Matters Of Universal Interest.

The First Glance At History Convinces Us That The Actions Of Men Proceed From Their Needs, Their Passions, Their Characters And Talents; And Impresses Us With The Belief That Such Needs, Passions And Interests Are The Sole Spring Of Actions.

The Beginning Of Religion, More Precisely Its Content, Is The Concept Of Religion Itself, That God Is The Absolute Truth, The Truth Of All Things, And Subjectively That Religion Alone Is The Absolutely True Knoweldge.