To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

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

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

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.