Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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