"The true is the bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk; and because every member as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately—the revel is just as much transparent and simple repos…"

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

"The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the sovereign of the world; that the history of the world, therefor…"

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."

"The Absolute is pure being, and pure nothingness."