"The State is absolutely rational inasmuch as it is the actuality of the substantial will which it possesses in the particular self-consciousness once that consciousness has been raised to consciousnes…"

"The State is the divine idea as it exists on earth."

"The beautiful is the sensible appearance of the Idea."

"The hero is not one who is braver than another, but one who is braver than the hero himself."

"The individual, in so far as he is a particular being, is concerned with his own particular interest."