Friedrich Hegel

"Being is the thesis, nothingness is the antithesis."

"The infinite is not beyond the finite."

"Understanding is the mediating link between thought and being."

"Culture is the education of the human spirit."

"Art expresses the age from which it springs."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Religion is spirit knowing itself within finitude."

"Ethics is the science of the universal."

"The state is the march of God through the world."

"Freedom requires recognition by another."

"The master-slave dialectic defines human relations."

"Unhappiness is the privilege of great souls."

"The subjective spirit becomes objective in institutions."

"Thought must think itself; being must be thought."

"The determinate is the negation of indeterminacy."

"Mediation is the moving principle of all things."

"The concrete is richer than the abstract."

"History is the exhibition of the divine reason."

"The negative is the dynamic principle of all being."

"Actuality is the unity of essence and existence."

"The universal community is the goal of history."

"Spirit is freedom; freedom is self-consciousness."

"The cunning of reason guides history to its end."

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

"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."

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

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

"The particular is not difficult to understand; the universal alone is hard to grasp."

"Consciousness is a being that relates itself to another being, and in doing so relates itself to itself."

"What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history."