What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on the principles deduced from it.
What and how much I possess is from the standpoint of right a matter of indifference.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
To understand how to put questions presupposes a certain education.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science.
There is nothing, nothing in heaven, or in nature or in mind or anywhere else which does not equally contain both immediacy and mediation.
There are two kinds of laws, laws of nature and laws of right.
The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
The true process is found in the logic, and here in The Philosophy of Right is presupposed.