The Heart Is Everywhere, And Each Part

The East Knew And To The Present Day Knows Only That One Is Free; The Greek And The Roman World, That Some Are Free; The German World Knows That All Are Free. The First Political Form Therefore Which We Observe In History, Is Despotism, The Second Democracy And Aristocracy, The Third, Monarchy.

All The Worth Which The Human Being Possesses All Spiritual Reality, He Possesses Only Through The State... For Truth Is The Unity Of The Universal And Subjective Will; And The Universal Is To Be Found In The State, In Its Laws, Its Universal And Rational Arrangements. The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth. We Have In It, Therefore, The Object Of History In A More Definite Shape Than Before; That In Which Freedom Obtains Objectivity...

Genuine Tragedy Is A Case Not Of Right Against Wrong But Of Right Against Right - Two Equally Justified Ethical Principles Embodied In People Of Unchangeable Will.

Public Opinion Contains All Kinds Of Falsity And Truth, But It Takes A Great Man To Find The Truth In It. The Great Man Of The Age Is The One Who Can Put Into Words The Will Of His Age, Tell His Age What Its Will Is, And Accomplish It. What He Does Is The Heart And The Essence Of His Age, He Actualizes His Age. The Man Who Lacks Sense Enough To Despise Public Opinion Expressed In Gossip Will Never Do Anything Great.

Whatever Happens, Every Individual Is A Child Of His Time; So Philosophy Too Is Its Own Time Apprehended In Thoughts. It Is Just As Absurd To Fancy That A Philosophy Can Transcend Its Contemporary World As It Is To Fancy That An Individual Can Overleap His Own Age, Jump Over Rhodes.