We Learn From History That We Do

What The English Call "comfortable" Is Something Endless And Inexhaustible. Every Condition Of Comfort Reveals In Turn Its Discomfort, And These Discoveries Go On For Ever. Hence The New Want Is Not So Much A Want Of Those Who Have It Directly, But Is Created By Those Who Hope To Make Profit From It.

In History, We Are Concerned With What Has Been And What Is; In Philosophy, However, We Are Concerned Not With What Belongs Exclusively To The Past Or To The Future, But With That Which Is, Both Now And Eternally — In Short, With Reason.

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

Animals Are In Possession Of Themselves; Their Soul Is In Possession Of Their Body. But They Have No Right To Their Life, Because They Do Not Will It.

When Individuals And Nations Have Once Got In Their Heads The Abstract Concept Of Full-blown Liberty, There Is Nothing Like It In Its Uncontrollable Strength.