The Owl Of Minerva Spreads Its Wings

Because Of Its Concrete Content, Sense-certainty Immediately Appears As The Richest Kind Of Knowledge, Indeed A Knowledge Of Infinite Wealth For Which No Bounds Can Be Found, Either When We Reach Out Into Space And Time In Which It Is Dispersed, Or When We Take A Bit Of This Wealth, And By Division Enter Into It. Moreover, Sense-certainty Appears To Be The Truest Knowledge ... But, In The Event, This Very Certainty Proves Itself To Be The Most Abstract And Poorest Truth. All That It Says About What It Knows Is Just That It Is; And Its Truth Contains Nothing But The Sheer Being Of The Thing.

It Is Because The Method Of Physics Does Not Satisfy The Comprehension That We Have To Go On Further.

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

Every Idea, Extended Into Infinity, Becomes Its Own Opposite.

The True Courage Of Civilized Nations Is Readiness For Sacrifice In The Service Of The State, So That The Individual Counts As Only One Amongst Many. The Important Thing Here Is Not Personal Mettle But Aligning Oneself With The Universal.