(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom |
Freedom is a fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter. . . . That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word. |
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die. |
In duty the individual finds his liberation; liberation from dependence on mere natural impulse. |
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. |
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. |
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion |
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion |
Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me. |
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. |
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. |
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knowledge. |
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 |
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. |
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. |