"The world spirit is a spirit that does not suffer itself to be confined to one nation, but passes from nation to nation, from period to period."

"The Idea is the unity of the concept and its reality."

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

"The very fact that something is a datum of consciousness, that it is an 'other', means that it is not absolute."

"Man is a thinking being, and this is what distinguishes him from the animals."