World History Is A Court Of Judgment.

On The Stage On Which We Are Observing It, — Universal History — Spirit Displays Itself In Its Most Concrete Reality.

Genuine Tragedies In The World Are Not Conflicts Between Right And Wrong. They Are Conflicts Between Two Rights.

Philosophy Must Indeed Recognize The Possibility That The People Rise To It, But Must Not Lower Itself To The People.

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.

The Learner Always Begins By Finding Fault, But The Scholar Sees The Positive Merit In Everything.