India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.