"The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, its meaning, and translate it into action."

"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 German spirit is the spirit of the new world."

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

"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."