Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles… — 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,… — 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 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
“When we say, "God is love," we are saying something very great and true. But it would be senseless to grasp this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West. — 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
“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of… — 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
“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.” — 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
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs… — 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
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I apprehend and see in all of them that they are in their own eyes (für sich selbst) only these independent beings… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother… — 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
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
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us… — 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
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
