The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom