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

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.