Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

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The goal to be reached is the mind's insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary,... because by nothing less could that all-pervading mind ever manage to become conscious of what itself is — for that reason, the individual mind, in the nature of the case, cannot expect by less toil to grasp what its own substance contains.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Discord which appears at first to be a lamentable breach and dissolution of the unity of a party, is really the crowning proof of its success.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself.... Thus absorbed in itself, it is sunk in the night of its self-consciousness; but in that night its vanished outer existence is perserved, and this transformed existence — the former one, but now reborn of the Spirit's knowledge — is the new existence, a new world and a new shape of Spirit.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The life of God — the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things — may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel