Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

"Custom and morality alone do not constitute the nature of the state."

"A man may be highly educated and still be unfit for practical life."

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

"The course of intellectual development is the same for all humanity, in essence."

"In love, the particular is everything."

"Philosophy is the history of philosophy."

"The dialectic is the principle of development of all things."

"Truth is like a bad reputation; once it spreads, it is difficult to contain."

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects the freedom of others."

"The beautiful is the sensuous manifestation of the idea."

"All human activity is distinguished from mechanical activity by consciousness."

"The goal of the world spirit is the realization of freedom."

"One cannot step twice into the same river, nor can one grasp the fleeting present."

"The individual is the contradiction of the universal and the particular."

"Spirit is essentially the result of its own activity; its activity is its existence."

"Regarding history, I think we learn from history that people never learn from history."

"The rose is a symbol of the reconciliation of opposites."

"Poetry is a higher truth than history."

"Life is the process of becoming."

"The worth of the state is the worth of the individuals who compose it."

"Every individual has the right to be recognized as a person."

"Religion is the form in which truth appears to those who cannot grasp it intellectually."

"The idea that is truly infinite is freedom."

"Misfortune is the path to truth."

"The rational cannot remain abstract; it must become concrete."

"A person without historical consciousness is lost."

"The necessity of thought is the freedom of thought."

"Beauty is an expression of the spiritual in sensuous form."

"The real is reasonable; whatever is reasonable is real."

"Love is the feeling that the self exists in another."