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

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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.

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

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

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

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.