Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
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.