"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 individual is merely a moment of the universal."

"The Absolute is pure thought, and pure thought is the Absolute."

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

"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…"