It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.
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.
In the first element God is beyond time.
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world’s culture delineated in faint outline.
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
Impulses must be purified is found the general idea that they must be freed from the form of direct subjection to nature.
I possess my life and my body, like other things, only in so far as my will is in them.
From the point of view of others, I am in essence a free entity in my body.
Fire is materialised time.
Faith must now get what is essentially the form of mediation.
Existence as determinate being is in essence being for another.