Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

"The true is the whole."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"History is not the soil of happiness."

"Life has activity as its proceeding radical principle."

"The present contains all that is rational."

"Consciousness is a sickness."

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

"Art is the means by which we approach divinity."

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

"Unhappiness is the condition of human existence."

"Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins."

"Suffering is the price of existence."

"The state is the realization of freedom."

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

"Spirit is content; it is the absolute substance."

"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."

"Truth requires a moment of courage."

"Human beings are not born to be slaves."

"The beautiful is the appearance of the idea."

"Knowledge is power only when applied to action."

"Changing the world requires thinking beyond the present."

"The individual finds their identity through the state."

"Reason is substance."

"Self-consciousness requires recognition by another."

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

"Patience is the virtue of heroes."

"Every individual is a child of their time."

"Achievement requires overcoming opposition."