“The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.”

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.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

All will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

The surest sign that you’re working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don’t complain very much about doing what it takes.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

Financial winners don’t run sprints, they run marathons. They don’t rush. They do it step by step over time.

Let my soul live as if separated from my body.