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
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a… — 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
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
“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.” — 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
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. — 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
