Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — "The concrete is the unity of diverse determinations."

"The principle of all development is the contradiction."

"The logical is the absolute form of truth, and indeed the truth itself."

"The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the sovereign of the world; that the history of the world, therefor…"

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

"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 consciousnes…"