When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

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

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

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

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed