Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

"Truth is the whole."

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."

"Education is the process by which thought is opened up to the infinite universe of ideas."

"Self-consciousness exists in and for itself when, and by the fact that, so exists another self-consciousness."

"The universal is to be found in the particular."

"War itself is the objective of Weltgeist at a certain stage of history."

"Spirit is the only reality."

"Death is the natural conclusion of life, not its negation."

"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage all other virtues lose their meaning."

"The discord between what we want and what we get is the greatest source of tragedy."

"All things are in motion, and nothing rests."

"Philosophy is not a comfort for the weary but a reconciliation with reality."

"The true is the whole."

"Beauty is the appearance of the Idea."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"What is past is preserved in what is present."

"The final and highest stage in the development of freedom is religious consciousness."

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."

"Nature is external mind; mind is internal nature."

"The world is not comprehended by a work of understanding, but by intuition."

"Justice is the realization of freedom in the ethical community."

"The present is always the enemy of the future."

"To be conscious is to be aware of one's own existence and the existence of others."

"Great men are not born great; they become great."

"Art without emotion is merely decoration."

"History moves on the backs of the few who understand the times."

"Money is the universal commodity."

"The particular is the expression of the universal."

"Absolute knowledge is the goal of all thinking."

"What is necessary must come to pass."