All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber