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

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

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

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