Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

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

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

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

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber