All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

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.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.