Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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.
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 strength.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
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 State.
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
