Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

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

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

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

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