It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.