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

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.

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

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

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

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.