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 |
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite. |
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow |
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. |
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. |
To be free is nothing, to become free is everything. |
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. |
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. |
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. |
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. |