Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

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

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.