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

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

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

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

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

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.