Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

"Individuals are limited by their historical epoch."

"Reason is substance as well as infinite power."

"The state must be conceived as an organism."

"Family is the first ethical sphere."

"Civil society mediates between family and the state."

"Power belongs to those who recognize necessity."

"The master-slave dialectic defines consciousness."

"Knowledge demands the death of particularity."

"What is alive is rational; what is dead is irrational."

"Imagination is the image-forming capacity of spirit."

"Language is the repository of national spirit."

"Justice is the realization of the universal will."

"Art must be transcended by philosophy."

"Religion is the people's consciousness before it becomes science."

"The infinite is known only in the finite."

"Self-consciousness arises through other consciousnesses."

"Dialectical thinking reveals truth through contradiction."

"The cunning of reason works through history."

"Nations are the stages of world-history's self-realization."

"Progress requires the negation of what has been."

"Tragedy reveals the necessity of fate and the power of will."

"The tragic hero is noble in their downfall."

"Comedy reveals the contingency of existence."

"Beauty reconciles freedom and necessity."

"Ugliness is the failure of form to express content."

"Architecture expresses the spirit of an age."

"Sculpture is the art form of the classical world."

"Painting is the subjective art of Romanticism."

"Music is the art of pure subjectivity."

"Poetry is the highest form of symbolic expression."