Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

World history is a court of judgment.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.