It Is Easier To Discover A Deficiency

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.

Genuine Tragedies In The World Are Not Conflicts Between Right And Wrong. They Are Conflicts Between Two Rights.

The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth.

The Essence Of The Modern State Is The Union Of The Universal With The Full Freedom Of The Particular, And With The Welfare Of Individuals.

The Essence Of The Modern State Is That The Universal Be Bound Up With The Complete Freedom Of Its Particular Members And With Private Well-being, That Thus The Interests Of Family And Civil Society Must Concentrate Themselves On The State. It Is Only When Both These Moments Subsist In Their Strength That The State Can Be Regarded As Articulated And Genuinely Organized.