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 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 be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.