The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

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.

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

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.