Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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.
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.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.