Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right – two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
I have the courage to be mistaken.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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.