"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…"

"Spirit is the only reality."

"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 rose in the cross of the present."

"Religion is the self-consciousness of God."