People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.