What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.

Worship is the community's cult in its purest, most inward, most subjective form--a cult in which objectivity is, as it were, consumed and digested, while the objective content, now stripped of its objectivity, has become a possession of mind and feeling.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the, consciousness of freedom.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning. One orients one’s attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony – periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

The system of logic is the realm of shadows, the world of simple essentialities, freed of all sensuous concretion. To study this science, to dwell and to labor in this realm of shadows, is the absolute culture and discipline of consciousness.

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.