Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

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

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...