Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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

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

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

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.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.