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

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

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.

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