Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.