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All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
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.
God is the absolute truth...
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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