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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.
— Wilhelm Keitel
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every fear is fear of death.
— Wilhelm Stekel
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
Chess is not for timid souls.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Clouds rise up to heaven: The image of WAITING.
Thus the superior man eats and drinks,
is joyous and of good cheer. — Hellmut Wilhelm
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Long live eternal Germany!
— Wilhelm Frick
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
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
— Wilhelm, Ostwald
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
— Wilhelm Liebknecht
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What man is, only his history tells.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The true is the whole.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To achieve great things we must be self-confined ... mastery is revealed in limitation.
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.
— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)
— Ellen Klages
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
— Wilhelm Stekel
Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I have the courage to be mistaken.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
— Richard Wilhelm
Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
I did not think; I experimented.
— Wilhelm Rontgen
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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 materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
— Wilhelm Wundt
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
— Charles Lyell
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
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
— Wilhelm Stekel
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
— Wilhelm Keitel
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
— 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
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!
— Wilhelm Steinitz
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
God is the absolute truth
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel