I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.

World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of dusk.

What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

-- Hypatia

Truth does not contradict truth; rather it accords with it and bears witness to it.

-- Averroes

Subjectivity is truth.

-- Søren Kierkegaard

Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.

-- Plato

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

-- David Hume

Accept the truth from whoever speaks it.

-- Moshe ben Maimon