"The individual is not a substance, but a subject."

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

"The true is the rational, and the rational is the true."

"The State is the march of God through the world."

"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."