It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

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

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.