"The State is the reality of the moral idea – the moral spirit as substantial will, manifest and clear to itself, which thinks and knows itself, and accomplishes what it knows and in so far as it knows…"

"The State is the reality of the concrete freedom."

"The Absolute is Mind."

"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."

"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…"