History As The Slaughter-bench

As High As Mind Stands Above Nature, So High Does The State Stand Above Physical Life. Man Must Therefore Venerate The State As A Secular Deity.

The Owl Of Minerva Spreads Its Wings Only With The Falling Of The Dusk.

An Idea Is Always A Generalization, And Generalization Is A Property Of Thinking. To Generalize Means To Think.

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.

The True Is The Whole.