Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.