Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Absolute is pure thought, and pure thought is the Absolute.

The State is the ethical whole, the realization of freedom.

The Idea is the self-determining and self-realizing truth.

The Absolute is the process of its own becoming.

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

What experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of agreement, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

The beautiful is the sensible showing forth of the Idea.

Man is a thinking being, and this is what distinguishes him from the animals.

The Absolute is Mind.

The very fact that something is a datum of consciousness, that it is an 'other', means that it is not absolute.

The truth is concrete.

The individual, in so far as he is a particular being, is concerned with his own particular interest.

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.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The cunning of reason.

The hero is not one who is braver than another, but one who is braver than the hero himself.

The infinite is the negation of the finite.

The world spirit is a spirit that does not suffer itself to be confined to one nation, but passes from nation to nation, from period to period.