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

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.