Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.