God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions

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