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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

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran

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

Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet. — David Harvey

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 detaches
itself 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

Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert. — Anne Carson

This third step Hegel called the Negation of the Negation. With the continued operation of the negation, a new thing or being comes into existence. — Anonymous

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

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. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united in
the 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

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk. — Eugene Mirman

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