Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which… — 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
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has… — 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
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — 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 many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass,… — 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
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