Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Language is the objectification of thought, the externalization of concept."

"True freedom consists in the knowledge and willing of the universal."

"The modern world represents the triumph of the subjective principle in history."

"Purpose without understanding leads to mere striving without direction."

"The particular individual achieves dignity through recognition of the universal."

"Contradiction is the moving principle of all things and all development."

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

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity"

"The real is the rational and the rational is the real"

"Unhappiness is the discord between reality and our desires"

"Life is the process of becoming, not a fixed state"

"Art is the sensuous manifestation of truth"

"The penalty of greatness is responsibility"

"Understanding the present requires understanding the past"

"Consciousness arises from the conflict between the self and the other"

"Beauty is the appearance of the Idea in the sensible world"

"The state is the ethical substance made concrete"

"To be aware of limitation is to transcend it"

"Language is the existence of spirit in the world"

"The individual must find truth through engagement with the universal"

"Hatred is like fire, it consumes itself"

"What seems to us to be the starting point is really the end"

"The essence of freedom is choice"

"Reconciliation is the truth of conflict"

"The task of philosophy is to comprehend what is"

"Courage consists in facing fear, not in its absence"

"Work is the manifestation of human purpose"

"The contradiction in human nature is its driving force"