A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life of knowledge and faith.
An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
In the first element God is beyond time, as the eternal Idea, existing in the element of eternity….
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: ‘Is it true in and for itself?’
Nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one.
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.