Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

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

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

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

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

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.