If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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.