"The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of agreement, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance."

"The Absolute is Spirit."

"The famous principle, 'Know thyself,' is not merely an exhortation to self-knowledge, but also, and more fundamentally, a demand for knowledge of the nature of Spirit."

"The State is the reality of the moral idea – the moral spirit as substantial will, manifest and clear to itself, which thinks and knows itself, and accomplishes what it knows and in so far as it knows…"

"The true is the self-realization of the concept."