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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

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.

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

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

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

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

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

Education is the art of making man ethical

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed ...

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

History as the slaughter-bench

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

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

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

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.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

World history is a court of judgment

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

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.

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
planet.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter ... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

The true is the whole.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

There are Plebes in all classes.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

God is the absolute truth

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

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

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

What is rational is real and what is real is rational

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

crowd of frenzied females,

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

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 he so far views it

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.