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.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

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

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.