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

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.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.