"The Absolute is pure being, and pure nothingness."

"Slavery, in and for itself, is no more wrong than freedom."

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

"The individual, in so far as he is a particular individual, is not the true object of morality."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."