Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

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

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

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

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.