But like the desire for eternal life, the desire for omniscience and absolute perfection is merely an imaginary desire; and, as history and daily exp… - Ludwig Feuerbach

All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.

The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.

Hegel determines and presents only the most striking differences of various religions, philosophies, time and peoples, and in a progressive series of stages, but he ignores all that is common and identical in all of them. … His system knows only subordination and succession; coordination and coexistence are unknown to it.