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

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

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.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.