Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
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.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
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.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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.
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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.
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
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