Governments Have Never Learned Anything

What The English Call "comfortable" Is Something Endless And Inexhaustible. Every Condition Of Comfort Reveals In Turn Its Discomfort, And These Discoveries Go On For Ever. Hence The New Want Is Not So Much A Want Of Those Who Have It Directly, But Is Created By Those Who Hope To Make Profit From It.

What Is Reasonable Is Real; That Which Is Real Is Reasonable.

The Heart-throb For The Welfare Of Humanity Therefore Passes Into The Ravings Of An Insane Self-conceit, Into The Fury Of Consciousness To Preserve Itself From Destruction; And It Does This By Expelling From Itself The Perversion Which It Is Itself, And By Striving To Look On It And Express It As Something Else.

The Essence Of The Modern State Is That The Universal Be Bound Up With The Complete Freedom Of Its Particular Members And With Private Well-being, That Thus The Interests Of Family And Civil Society Must Concentrate Themselves On The State. It Is Only When Both These Moments Subsist In Their Strength That The State Can Be Regarded As Articulated And Genuinely Organized.

The Evident Character Of This Defective Cognition Of Which Mathematics Is Proud, And On Which It Plumes Itself Before Philosophy, Rests Solely On The Poverty Of Its Purpose And The Defectiveness Of Its Stuff, And Is Therefore Of A Kind That Philosophy Must Spurn