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.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

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

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.