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.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

God is the absolute truth...