An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

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

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.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

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.