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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
— Tom Holland
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 force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
— Friedrich Engels
For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other
— Francis Fukuyama
The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History as the slaughter-bench
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
— Jostein Gaarder
G.W.F. Hegel. "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote ... "Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.
— Robert Anton Wilson
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
— Karl Jaspers
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detachesitself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the
planet. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
crowd of frenzied females,
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.
— Alena Graedon
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
— Frederick C. Beiser
The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united inthe ostensible abandonment of virtue. — Albert Camus
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
— Simone De Beauvoir
My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.
— Terry Eagleton
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
— Oscar Wilde
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
— 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
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
War is progress, peace is stagnation
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed ...
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel said that history was the story of freedom becoming conscious of itself.
— Christopher Hitchens
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That's why we don't know so much about stupidity.
— Carl William Brown
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
The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
— Walter Benjamin
God is the absolute truth
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is rational is real and what is real is rational
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)
— George Santayana
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
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose.
— Nigel Hems
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
— Frederick C. Beiser
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I have the courage to be mistaken.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To put the point facetiously, one could say that Hegel began his career a Marxist and later became a Hegelian.
— Michael N. Forster
Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The true is the whole.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel