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.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

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.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

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

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.