"The beautiful is the sensible showing forth of the Idea."

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

"The principle of all development is the contradiction."

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

"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."