"The famous principle, 'Know thyself,' is not merely an exhortation to self-knowledge, but also, and more fundamentally, a demand for knowledge of the nature of Spirit."

"The individual is merely a moment of the universal."

"The State is the actuality of the ethical 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…"

"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…"