History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHistory in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelNothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel