To Him Who Looks Upon The World

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational. On This Conviction The Plain Man Like The Philosopher Takes His Stand,and From It Philosophy Starts In Its Study Of The Universe Of Mind As Well As The Universe Of Nature.

God Is, As It Were, The Sewer Into Which All Contradictions Flow.

America Is Therefore The Land Of The Future, Where, In The Ages That Lie Before Us, The Burden Of The World's History Shall Reveal Itself.

Since Philosophy Is The Exploration Of The Rational, It Is For That Very Reason The Apprehension Of The Present And The Actual, Not The Erection Of A Beyond, Supposed To Exist, God Knows Where, Or Rather Which Exists, And We Can Perfectly Well Say Where, Namely In The Error Of A One-sided, Empty, Ratiocination.