Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

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

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

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.