If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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