Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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.
The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.
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.
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.