As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

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

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.

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.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.