Philosophy Can Only Be Approached

The History Of Philosophy Is Not, Like The History Of The Sciences, To Be Studied With The Intellect Alone. That Which Is Receptive In Us And That Which Impinges Upon Us From History Is The Reality Of Man's Being, Unfolding Itself In Thought.

Reason Is Like An Open Secret That Can Become Known To Anyone At Any Time; It Is The Quiet Space Into Which Everyone Can Enter Through His Own Thought

My Own Being Can Be Judged By The Depths I Reach In Making These Historical Origins My Own.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

The Community Of Masses Of Human Beings Has Produced An Order Of Life In Regulated Channels Which Connects Individuals In A Technically Functioning Organisation, But Not Inwardly From The Historicity Of Their Souls.