Friedrich Hegel

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"The subject-object distinction must be overcome in thought"

"Reality manifests itself progressively in history"

"The state embodies the ethical substance of the people"

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

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

"The realisation of freedom is the most difficult task of all."

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

"Life has activity, and if we lose that activity, we lose ourselves."

"Self-consciousness is the key to all consciousness."

"The course of history shows us that freedom grows through successive struggles."

"Art is the sensuous presentation of truth."

"Unhappiness consists in the disparity between our talents and our ambitions."

"The condition of our happiness is a secret we must always maintain."

"Man can be changed by his environment."

"To him a forebear is as high as heaven."

"Science is the knowledge of things not previously known."

"The hours that make us happy make us wise."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."

"What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history."

"A person is intelligent only to the degree that he is able to understand himself."

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

"Nature is the outward manifestation of the divine spirit."

"Only what is rational is real; only what is real is rational."

"Time itself is the concept that moves."

"The universal is to be found in the particular."

"Freedom exists only in the sense of positive liberty, not negative liberty."

"Without reflection we go blindly on our way."

"The present is the moment where past and future meet."

"Every historical epoch must be understood in its own terms."