As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state… — 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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — 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
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. — 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 proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — 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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do but the life of spirit is not 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
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life,… — 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
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in 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
