“Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.”

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

Gay rights are human rights.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.