Deities Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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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 secular deity.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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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, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in…

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The true is the whole.

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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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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 wisdom]; for it is not only truth in and for itself, as the pure essence of things, but also truth in its living form as exhibited in the affairs of the world. We should not, therefore,…

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

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In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are…

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is…

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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise…

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If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of…

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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do…

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This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said…

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The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is…

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