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.

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.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.