It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

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

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

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.