Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

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

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.