Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“To babble unintelligible prayers, to read masses, to recite rosaries, to practice ceremonies of religious worship empty of meaning, this is the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do but the life of spirit is not the… — 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 saying in a simple-minded way as a simple definition, without analyzing what love is. For love is a distinguishing of two, who nevertheless are absolutely not distinguished for each other. The consciousness or feeling of the identity of… — 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
