Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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

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

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

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

"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."

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

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

"The happy man is he who knows how to bring his ideas into correspondence with reality."

"Freedom is nothing else but that magnificent feeling of responsibility."

"Truth is its own proof."

"The Absolutely True reveals itself only in thought."

"All that is real is rational; all that is rational is real."

"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend by friend departs, how fast the colors fade away from out the world and hearts."

"Beauty is not merely something pleasant; it is a revelation of truth."

"In the Roman world, we do not find such intimate connexion between the Spiritual and the Natural."

"Art is the means and the medium for doing away with character."

"It is in the moment of reaching the goal that genius realizes its greatest worth."

"Change is the only permanence."

"Logic is the science of pure thought."

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

"History is not the soil of happiness."

"What the subject is objectively, that it is for itself too; it is in the position of standing in relation to itself."

"The True is the whole."

"Music is the most romantic of all the arts."

"It is not enough for the heart to break; it must also bleed."

"Patience attains all things."

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

"The absolute is best described as simply being."

"Self-consciousness is the key to understanding reality."

"The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter."