World History Is A Court

People Who Are Too Fastidious Towards The Finite Never Reach Actuality, But Linger In Abstraction, And Their Light Dies Away.

The Person Must Give Himself An External Sphere Of Freedom In Order To Have Being As Idea.

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 Heart-throb For The Welfare Of Humanity Therefore Passes Into The Ravings Of An Insane Self-conceit, Into The Fury Of Consciousness To Preserve Itself From Destruction; And It Does This By Expelling From Itself The Perversion Which It Is Itself, And By Striving To Look On It And Express It As Something Else.

The First Glance At History Convinces Us That The Actions Of Men Proceed From Their Needs, Their Passions, Their Characters And Talents; And Impresses Us With The Belief That Such Needs, Passions And Interests Are The Sole Spring Of Actions.