Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Freedom is the truth of necessity.

The individual has to pass through a long process of education before he is able to grasp the Notion.

The history of philosophy is the history of its errors.

The task of philosophy is to comprehend what is.

The rose in the cross of the present.

The individual is merely a moment of the universal.

The Absolute is the result of its own development.

The world historical individuals are the ones who have grasped the next necessary stage in the development of the Spirit.

The truth is in the movement.

The science of logic is the science of pure thought.

Africa proper has no history as it is not a historical continent and has nothing to show in the way of development.

The individual, in so far as he is a particular individual, is not the true object of morality.

Oriental empires have no history, properly speaking, because they are merely a succession of governments which, as they arise and pass away, leave no traces behind them.

The State is absolutely rational inasmuch as it is the actuality of the substantial will which it possesses in the particular self-consciousness once that consciousness has been raised to consciousness of its universality.

The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, its meaning, and translate it into action.

The highest point that a people can reach is the realization of the state.

Slavery, in and for itself, is no more wrong than freedom.

The family is the immediate actuality of the ethical spirit.

The truth of the individual is the universal.

The German spirit is the spirit of the new world.