No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

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