A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.