The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.