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 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
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. — 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
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of… — 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 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
