In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

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

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber