Universal Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

8 Universal quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Hegel’s eight lines on the universal capture his dialectical approach in a succinct form, offering a quick taste of his complex philosophical tapestry.

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On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for…

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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to…

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All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is…

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The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and…

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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its…

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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as…

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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the…

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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,…

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The true is the whole.

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“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…

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Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the…

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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a…

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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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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…

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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world…

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