Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

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

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

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

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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