When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I apprehend and see in all of them that they are in their own eyes (für sich selbst) only these independent beings… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
