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.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

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

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.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.