World history is a court of judgment.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.