Philosophy Quotes

"Spirit is the only reality."

"Philosophy is not a comfort for the weary but a reconciliation with reality."

"The particular is the expression of the universal."

"Reason is not separate from reality but is its inner essence."

"The universal spirit manifests itself in the particular individual."

"The particular achieves universality through mediation."

"Reality is rational, and rationality is real."

"The dialectic is the method of truth itself."

"Our morality is but the morality of custom."

"The person that the world calls free is really the most enslaved."

"The moral judgment of mankind has always lagged behind the moral necessities of the time."

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."

"The human being is the only creature bound by the moral law."

"Reason alone can guide us to lasting happiness and peace."

"The foundation of all virtue is respect for the moral law within."

"The greatest tragedy is the triumph of reason divorced from morality."

"The ultimate question is not what can we know, but what must we do."

"The individual is the center of all knowledge, and the rest of the universe must revolve around him accordingly."

"Madness is something rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, peoples, ages, it is the rule."

"Every profound spirit needs a mask; around every profound spirit there grows a mask."

"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"The most spiritual will is the one that can transcend good and evil."

"The rot is in the heart, a rotting rot in the heart—I can feel it, but I cannot name it."

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."

"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter really were tears?"

"Life has its own hidden meaning that the busy man on the street does not see, does not suspect."

"The task is not to understand one's self by way of life, but to understand life by way of one's self."

"The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions make their appearance in continual succession."

"The mind, spirit, and immaterial substance are one thing."

"The passions do not belong to the body but to the soul."