There Are Plebes In All Classes.

The Man Whom Philosophy Leaves Cold, And The Man Whom Real Faith Does Not Illuminate, May Be Assured That The Fault Lies In Them, Not In Knowledge And Faith. The Former Is Still An Alien To Philosophy, The Latter An Alien To Faith.

If We Go On To Cast A Look At The Fate Of These World-historical Persons, Whose Vocation It Was To Be The Agents Of The World-spirit, We Shall Find It To Have Been No Happy One. They Attained No Calm Enjoyment; Their Whole Life Was Labour And Trouble; Their Whole Nature Was Nought Else But Their Master—passion. When Their Object Is Attained They Fall Off Like Empty Hulls From The Kernel. They Die Early, Like Alexander; They Are Murdered, Like Caesar.

To Be Aware Of Limitations Is Already To Be Beyond Them.

Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deducted From It.

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.