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.

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

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.