Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.