The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.