Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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

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

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

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.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.