Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

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

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

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