The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

World history is a court of judgment.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

Worship is the communitys cult in its purest most inward most subjective form a cult in which objectivity is as it were consumed and digested while the objective content now stripped of its objectivity has become a possession of mind and feeling.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Life is a state of consciousness.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.