Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free b...inding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sci...ences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe:... is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. M The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagi...ous illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against t...he Revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in on...e act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corr...esponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seed...s. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »