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negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself.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.

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

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

I have the courage to be mistaken.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

God is the absolute truth...