Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents;…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“To babble unintelligible prayers, to read masses, to recite rosaries, to practice ceremonies of religious worship empty of meaning, this is the…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“the Beautiful is the expression of the absolute Spirit, which is truth itself. This region of Divine truth as artistically presented to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel