Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes ist das Schicksal Makbeths, der aus der Natur selbst trat, sich an fremde Wesen hing, und so in ihrem Dienste alles Heilige der menschlichen Natur zertreten und ermorden, von seinen Göttern (denn es waren Objekte, er war Knecht) endlich verlassen, und an seinem Glauben selbst zerschmettert werden mußte.
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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
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The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
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Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
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The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.
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There are Plebes in all classes.
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The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
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On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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Das Wahre ist das Ganze.
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To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
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The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.
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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken. ('Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse', Berlin, 1833, p. 35)