The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

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

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.

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

World history is a court of judgment.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.