War is progress, peace is stagnation.

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...

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

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.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.