Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. — 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
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — 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
Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,… — 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
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
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable — 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,… — 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
