To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable