Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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

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 tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?