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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
— Georg Buchner
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
— Georg Solti
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder.
— Georg Buchner
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.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You dig in and you find something.
— Georg Baselitz
Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
— Georg Simmel
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
— Georg Brandes
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
— Georg Cantor
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
— Georg Buchner
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
— Georg Hermes
Man is a masterpiece of creation ...
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.
— Georg Hermes
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
— Georg Baselitz
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
— Georg Brandes
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There are Plebes in all classes.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
— Georg Brandes
The true is the whole.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
— Georg Simmel
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
What is rational is real and what is real is rational
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
God is the absolute truth
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
— Georg Trakl
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
— Georg Brandes
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
— Johann Georg Zimmermann
Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
— 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
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.
— Georg Henrik Von Wright
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.
— Georg Simmel
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing exists except through language.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
— Georg Trakl
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg