The Real Is The Rational And The

Philosophy Must Indeed Recognize The Possibility That The People Rise To It, But Must Not Lower Itself To The People.

All The Worth Which The Human Being Possesses All Spiritual Reality, He Possesses Only Through The State... For Truth Is The Unity Of The Universal And Subjective Will; And The Universal Is To Be Found In The State, In Its Laws, Its Universal And Rational Arrangements. The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth. We Have In It, Therefore, The Object Of History In A More Definite Shape Than Before; That In Which Freedom Obtains Objectivity...

Mark This Well, You Proud Men Of Action! You Are, After All, Nothing But Unconscious Instruments Of The Men Of Thought.

The Soul Is Presupposed As A Ready-made Agent, Which Displays Such Features As Its Acts And Utterances, From Which We Can Learn What It Is, What Sort Of Faculties And Powers It Possesses -- All Without Being Aware That The Act And Utterance Of What The Soul Is Really Invests It With That Character In Our Conception And Makes It Reach A Higher Stage Of Being Than It Explicitly Had Before.

In The Soul Is The Awaking Of Consciousness: Consciousness Sets Itself Up As Reason, Awaking At One Bound To The Sense Of Its Rationality: And This Reason By Its Activity Emancipates Itself To Objectivity And The Consciousness Of Its Intelligent Unity.