The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

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

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

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.

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.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.