The Substance, The Essence, The Spirit Is

The Substance, The Essence, The Spirit Is Freedom.

The Person Must Give Himself An External Sphere Of Freedom In Order To Have Being As Idea.

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

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 Ignorant Man Is Not Free, Because What Confronts Him Is An Alien World, Something Outside Him And In The Offing, On Which He Depends, Without His Having Made This Foreign World For Himself And Therefore Without Being At Home In It By Himself As In Something His Own. The Impulse Of Curiosity, The Pressure For Knowledge, From The Lowest Level Up To The Highest Rung Of Philosophical Insight Arises Only From The Struggle To Cancel This Situation Of Unfreedom And To Make The World One's Own In One's Ideas And Thought.