Only one word more concerning the desire to teach the world what it ought to be. For such a purpose philosophy at least always comes too late.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Once the children have been educated to freedom of personality, and have come of age, they become recognised as persons in the eyes of the law.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Impulses must be purified is found the general idea that they must be freed from the form of direct subjection to nature.
I possess my life and my body, like other things, only in so far as my will is in them.
From the point of view of others, I am in essence a free entity in my body.
Existence as determinate being is in essence being for another.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Be a person and respect others as persons.
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.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.