The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

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

World history is a court of judgment.

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

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

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.