Friedrich Hegel

"True power lies in the ability to shape the will of others."

"Mind is the deepest truth of being."

"Education is the process of becoming conscious of one's nature."

"The path of development is that of the owl, not the butterfly."

"Absolute knowledge is the recognition of everything as part of the eternal whole."

"The state is the reality of the ethical idea."

"Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality."

"The family is the primary sphere of ethical life."

"Spirit is a journey to itself."

"What seems difficult and complex in the present becomes simple in retrospect."

"War is the process by which the state comes into being."

"The reconciliation of opposites is the highest truth."

"Beauty is the manifestation of divine spirit in sensuous form."

"A man is as good as his word, and his word is his honor."

"The particular must give way to the universal."

"Memory preserves what is essential from the past."

"Justice is the realization of freedom in the social order."

"The task of the philosopher is to reconcile opposites."

"The world moves in the direction of greater freedom and rationality."

"Literature holds the mirror up to life."

"The individual must surrender to the universal will."

"Achievement requires both reason and passion."

"The struggle for recognition is the foundation of all human relations."

"What is rational cannot fail; what fails must be irrational."

"The path to wisdom is long and winding."

"Our deeds are the fruits of our desires."

"The world is not as bad as the cynic thinks, nor as good as the optimist dreams."

"Action without thought is blind; thought without action is empty."

"We cannot know ourselves except through our relationship to others."

"The greatest discoveries are those that reveal what was always present."