The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a… — 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 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
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with 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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — 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
When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
“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
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
