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
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 force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and… — 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
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 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
The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
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
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
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
