The Real Is The Rational And The

We Must Have A New Mythology, But It Must Place Itself At The Service Of Ideas, It Must Become A Mythology Of Reason. Mythology Must Become Philosophical, So That The People May Become Rational, And Philosophy Must Become Mythological, So That Philosophers May Become Sensible. If We Do Not Give Ideas A Form That Is Aesthetic, I.e., Mythological, They Will Hold No Interest For People.

The Heart-throb For The Welfare Of Humanity Therefore Passes Into The Ravings Of An Insane Self-conceit, Into The Fury Of Consciousness To Preserve Itself From Destruction; And It Does This By Expelling From Itself The Perversion Which It Is Itself, And By Striving To Look On It And Express It As Something Else.

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.

The Catholics Had Been In The Position Of Oppressors, And The Protestants Of The Oppressed

Whatever Happens, Every Individual Is A Child Of His Time; So Philosophy Too Is Its Own Time Apprehended In Thoughts. It Is Just As Absurd To Fancy That A Philosophy Can Transcend Its Contemporary World As It Is To Fancy That An Individual Can Overleap His Own Age, Jump Over Rhodes.