History Teaches Us That Man Learns Nothing

The Life Of God - The Life Which The Mind Apprehends And Enjoys As It Rises To The Absolute Unity Of All Things - May Be Described As A Play Of Love With Itself; But This Idea Sinks To An Edifying Truism, Or Even To A Platitude, When It Does Not Embrace In It The Earnestness, The Pain, The Patience, And Labor, Involved In The Negative Aspect Of Things.

Every Idea, Extended Into Infinity, Becomes Its Own Opposite.

The Force Of Mind Is Only As Great As Its Expression; Its Depth Only As Deep As Its Power To Expand And Lose Itself.

The Learner Always Begins By Finding Fault, But The Scholar Sees The Positive Merit In Everything.

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.