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State Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
- As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular…
- The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the…
- The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being,…
- The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst…
- When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has…
- All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of…
- Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
- The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila