The Learner Always Begins By Finding Fault,

Children Are Potentially Free And Their Life Directly Embodies Nothing Save Potential Freedom. Consequently They Are Not Things And Cannot Be The Property Either Of Their Parents Or Others.

When Needs And Means Become Abstract In Quality, Abstraction Is Also A Character Of The Reciprocal Relation Of Individuals To Oneanother. This Abstract Character, Universality, Is The Character Of Being Recognized And Is The Moment Which Makes Concrete, I.e. Social, The Isolated And Abstract Needs And Their Ways And Means Of Satisfaction.

The History Of The World Is Not The Theatre Of Happiness. Periods Of Happiness Are Blank Pages In It, For They Are Periods Of Harmony--periods When The Antithesis Is In Abeyance.

World History Is A Court Of Judgment.

For Us, Mind Has Nature For Its Premise, Being Nature's Truth And For That Reason Its Absolute Prius. In This Truth Nature Has Vanished, And Mind Has Resulted As The Idea Arrived At Being-for-itself, The Object Of Which, As Well As The Subject, Is The Concept. This Identity Is Absolute Negativity, For Whereas In Nature The Concept Has Its Perfect External Objectivity, This Its Alienation Has Been Superseded, And In This Alienation The Concept Has Become Identical With Itself. But It Is This Identity Therefore, Only In Being A Return Out Of Nature.