“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
“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can… — 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
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“the Beautiful is the expression of the absolute Spirit, which is truth itself. This region of Divine truth as artistically presented to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — 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
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
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
