Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

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

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber