Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The History of the World is nothing but the development of the Idea of Freedom.

Napoleon was twice defeated, and the Bourbons twice expelled. By repetition that which at first appeared merely a matter of chance and contingency, becomes a real and ratified existence.

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

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.