Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

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

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

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.