Art Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

The true is the whole.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel