When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

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

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.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.