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Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.