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.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

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.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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