Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.[Im Staat kann es keine Heroen mehr geben: diese kommen nur im ungebildeten Zustande vor.]
Once the children have been educated to freedom of personality, and have come of age, they become recognised as persons in the eyes of the law.
Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.[Nichts Großes in der Welt ohne Leidenschaft vollbracht worden ist.]
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.[Denn in Güte läßt sich gegen die Gewalt der Natur wenig ausrichten.]
Life is essentially the concept which realises itself only through self-division and reunification.
Knowledge of the Idea of the absolute ethical order depends entirely on the establishment of perfect adequacy between intuition and concept, because the Idea itself is nothing other than the identity of the two. But if this identity is to be actually known, it must be thought as a made adequacy.
It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past.
It is not the concern of philosophy to produce religion in any individual.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.[Es ist leichter, den Mangel an Individuen, an Staaten, an der Weltleitung einzusehen als ihren wahrhaften Gehalt.]
It has become a common jest in history to let great effects arise from small causes.
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
