The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

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.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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.

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