It Strikes Everyone In Beginning To Form

The True Is The Whole. But The Whole Is Nothing Other Than The Essence Consummating Itself Through Its Development. Of The Absolute It Must Be Said That It Is Essentially A Result, That Only In The End Is It What It Truly Is; And That Precisely In This Consists Its Nature, Viz. To Be Actual, Subject, The Spontaneous Becoming Of Itself.

It Is Solely By Risking Life That Freedom Is Obtained; . . . The Individual Who Has Not Staked His Or Her Life May, No Doubt, Be Recognized As A Person; But He Or She Has Not Attained The Truth Of This Recognition As An Independent Self-consciousness.

Mere Goodness Can Achieve Little Against The Power Of Nature.

No Man Is A Hero To His Valet. This Is Not Because The Hero Is No Hero, But Because The Valet Is A Valet.

To Be Independent Of Public Opinion Is The First Formal Condition Of Achieving Anything Great Or Rational Whether In Life Or In Science. Great Achievement Is Assured, However, Of Subsequent Recognition And Grateful Acceptance By Public Opinion, Which In Due Course Will Make It One Of Its Own Prejudices