Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

World history is a court of judgment.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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.