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

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

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