The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

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

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.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.