"The Absolute is that which is in and for itself."

"The individual is not a substance, but a subject."

"The famous principle, 'Know thyself,' is not merely an exhortation to self-knowledge, but also, and more fundamentally, a demand for knowledge of the nature of Spirit."

"The world is not a finished thing, but a process."

"What experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."