The Nature Of Finite Things Is To

In The Case Of All Other Sciences, Arts, Skills, And Crafts, Everyone Is Convinced That A Complex And Laborious Programme Of Learning And Practice Is Necessary For Competence. Yet When It Comes To Philosophy, There Seems To Be A Currently Prevailing Prejudice To The Effect That, Although Not Everyone Who Has Eyes And Fingers, And Is Given Leather And Last, Is At Once In A Position To Make Shoes, Everyone Nevertheless Immediately Understands How To Philosophize.

Each Of The Parts Of Philosophy Is A Philosophical Whole, A Circle Rounded And Complete In Itself. In Each Of These Parts, However, The Philosophical Idea Is Found In A Particular Specificality Or Medium. The Single Circle, Because It Is A Real Totality, Bursts Through The Limits Imposed By Its Special Medium, And Gives Rise To A Wider Circle. The Whole Of Philosophy In This Way Resembles A Circle Of Circles. The Idea Appears In Each Single Circle, But, At The Same Time, The Whole Idea Is Constituted By The System Of These Peculiar Phases, And Each Is A Necessary Member Of The Organisation.

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

The Owl Of Minerva Spreads Its Wings Only With The Falling Of The Dusk.

India Has Created A Special Momentum In World History As A Country To Be Searched For Knowledge.