An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

World history is a court of judgment.

God is the absolute truth...

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.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.