Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

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

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

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

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