"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development."
Education
"The power of the sword is very strong, but the power of the word is infinitely stronger."
Power
"Life is a process which results in consciousness."
Life
"The die is cast. But no one rolls a die. Each of us is the caster as well as the die that is cast."
"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."
Knowledge
"The Spirit is free, and it is freedom."
Freedom
"What is familiarly known is not properly known at all."
Wisdom
"Art is not the highest form of the Spirit. Religion and philosophy are higher."
Art
"The state is the realization of freedom in the world."
Politics
"Truth is the correspondence of thought and reality."
Truth
"The real problem of the poor is not a matter of money, but a matter of dignity."
Justice
"The ultimate result of the historical process is freedom, in and for itself, as the consciousness of freedom."
Freedom
"Nature is for consciousness the first in time, but not the first in-itself."
Nature
"One cannot step twice into the same river, but we are not even the same person twice."
Time
"The death of the individual is therefore not his annihilation but his preservation."
Death
"Mere goodness and beneficence cannot earn respect when it is not joined with strength."
Strength
"Fear is the root of all superstition."
Fear
"Work is the means by which man realizes his potential."
Work
"The dream is the key to understanding the soul."
Dreams
"World history is not the soil of happiness; happiness is not the concern of history."
Happiness
"Consciousness is a being for which being is an object because its being is intentional."
Knowledge
"The substance of reality is spirit, and spirit is infinite."
Philosophy
"Literature represents the development of human consciousness."
Literature
"In love, the individual becomes whole."
Love
"The understanding finite being is always incomplete."
Wisdom
"Reason is the substance of the universe."
Philosophy
"Character develops through the struggle against adversity."
Perseverance
"The concept is the power of negativity."
Philosophy
"Imagination is the gateway to the infinite."
Imagination
"The state is not something to be feared but to be realized."
Politics