Friedrich Hegel

"The task of philosophy is to understand what is, for what is is reason."

"Freedom is nothing but the recognition of necessity."

"Truth is the whole; the whole alone is the true."

"Art is the manifestation of the absolute through the sensible."

"The real is the rational; the rational is the real."

"The history of the world is not the soil of happiness."

"Individuals are not equal to their universal concept; they are inferior."

"Being without essence is empty; essence without being is abstract."

"The beautiful is the infinite showing itself in the finite."

"To him a thousand years are as a single day."

"The state is the realization of freedom."

"Reason is not so powerless as to be merely an ideal which ought to be."

"Sublimity is the attempt to express the infinite, without a truly adequate presentation."

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

"Spirit is inherently the result of its own activity."

"The course of the world's history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

"Religion is the recognition that our finite nature reaches towards the infinite."

"Tragedy shows us that individuals are subordinate to universal forces."

"The march of God in the world, that is what the state is."

"Education is the art of making man ethical."

"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart."

"Nothing is so dangerous as a man without understanding."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"Philosophy is not the realm of practical wisdom."

"Consciousness begins with the awareness of the contradictions within the self."

"The good is not arbitrary; it is necessary."

"Change is the law of all things; nothing remains the same."

"Ideas have consequences that shape the world."

"The night of the world is the crucible of becoming."

"Mind unfolds itself in stages, each necessary to the next."