The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.