It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

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

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

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.