It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.