History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.