People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. — 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 people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. — 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
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — 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, 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
