An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a… — 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… — 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
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 true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — 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 the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
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, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
“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 wisdom]; for it is not only truth in and for itself, as the pure essence of things, but also truth in its living form as exhibited in the affairs of the world. We should not, therefore,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
