The East Knew And To The Present

...if The Fear Of Falling Into Error Is The Source Of A Mistrust In Science, Which In The Absence Of Any Such Misgivings Gets On With The Work Itself And Actually Does Know, It Is Difficult To See Why, Conversely, A Mistrust Should Not Be Placed In This Mistrust, And Why We Should Not Be Concerned That This Fear Of Erring Is Itself The Very Error.

Every Philosophy Is Complete In Itself And, Like A Genuine Work Of Art, Contains The Totality. Just As The Works Of Apelles And Sophocles, If Raphael And Shakespeare Had Known Them, Should Not Have Appeared To Them As Mere Preliminary Exercises For Their Own Work, But Rather As A Kindred Force Of The Spirit, So, Too Reason Cannot Find In Its Own Earlier Forms Mere Useful Preliminary Exercises For Itself.

The Essence Of The Modern State Is The Union Of The Universal With The Full Freedom Of The Particular, And With The Welfare Of Individuals.

The People Will Learn To Feel The Dignity Of Man. They Will Not Merely Demand Their Rights, Which Have Been Trampled In The Dust, But Themselves Will Take Them - Make Them Their Own.

When Individuals And Nations Have Once Got In Their Heads The Abstract Concept Of Full-blown Liberty, There Is Nothing Like It In Its Uncontrollable Strength.