With us philosophy is not practised as a private art, as it was by the Greeks, but has a public place, and should therefore be employed only in the service of the state.
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The true process is found in the logic, and here in The Philosophy of Right is presupposed.
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
Philosophy cannot teach the state what it should be, but only how it, the ethical universe, is to be known.
Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.