God Is The Absolute Truth...

It Is Solely By Risking Life That Freedom Is Obtained; . . . The Individual Who Has Not Staked His Or Her Life May, No Doubt, Be Recognized As A Person; But He Or She Has Not Attained The Truth Of This Recognition As An Independent Self-consciousness.

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.

The Courage Of The Truth Is The First Condition Of Philosophic Study.

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.

The Valor That Struggles Is Better Than The Weakness That Endures.