When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

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

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.