Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Peace is the goal of all conflict."

"Beauty exists in proportion and harmony."

"Knowledge accumulates through history."

"Life is the struggle toward consciousness."

"Success demands sacrifice."

"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."

"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in the history of nations."

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"Art is the means by which the divine nature expresses itself through human creativity."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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

"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."

"The true is the whole; understanding requires seeing how parts relate to the totality."

"Death is the beginning of divinity, not the end of humanity."

"Freedom is not the absence of necessity, but the comprehension of necessity."

"Every individual has the right to demand recognition of his worth as a human being."

"The unhappy consciousness recognizes the divine, but sees itself separated from it."

"Time is the pure form of becoming, the movement of consciousness through itself."

"Law is the objectification of reason in the social world."

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

"Mind and being are essentially one; existence is the expression of thought."

"Consciousness arises through the negation and transcendence of what preceded it."

"The state is the realization of ethical life, the embodiment of freedom."

"Art represents the sensuous manifestation of truth and beauty."

"War is the necessary instrument through which history advances toward freedom."

"The family is the ethical idea in its immediate natural form."

"Civil society mediates between the family and the state in human development."

"Education is the discipline that transforms natural impulses into rational ones."

"The master-slave relationship reveals the fundamental struggle for recognition."