Friedrich Hegel

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling dusk"

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational"

"Life has activity, and if that activity is not exerted in real objects it passes into dreams"

"History is not the soil of happiness"

"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history"

"Freedom is the sole genius and virtue of man"

"Art is the most direct and clear expression of absolute truth"

"Consciousness is a being which relates itself to another being, from which it is distinguished"

"Beauty is the shine of truth"

"The state is the realization of freedom"

"Education is the process of becoming"

"Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis but in an emerging synthesis"

"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion"

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it"

"All that is real is rational, all that is rational is real"

"The self-conscious subject has the capacity to negate itself"

"The true is the whole"

"Individuals are subordinate to the universal"

"The march of God in the world is what we call history"

"Spirit is the true substance of all things"

"Existence is the union of essence and reality"

"War is an instrument of divine providence"

"The present is a point of transition"

"Work is the master of desire"

"Nature contains no universal truths without particulars"

"The universal shapes itself through the particular"

"Time is the dimension of self-externality"

"Sublimity lies in the elevation of the spirit"

"Freedom requires understanding necessity"

"The family is the primordial ethical community"