The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.