For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

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

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.