The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

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

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

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.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.

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