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.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

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 history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.