Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1:To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

2:Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

3:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

4:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

5:The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

6:The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

7:God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

8:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

9:All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [T5],

10:Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

11:To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

12:As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History,

13:It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

14:Natural consciousness will prove itself to be only knowledge in principle or not real knowledge. Since, however, it immediately takes itself to be the real and genuine knowledge, this pathway has a negative significance for it; what is a realization of the notion of knowledge means for it rather the ruin and overthrow of itself; for on this road it loses its own truth. Because of that, the road can be looked on as the path of doubt, or more properly a highway of despair. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit,

15:Being is the notion implicit only: its special forms have the predicate 'is'; when they are distinguished they are each of them an 'other': and the shape which dialectic takes in them, i.e. their further specialisation, is passing over into another. This further determination, or specialisation, is at once a forth-putting and in that way a disengaging of the notion implicit in being; and at the same time the withdrawing of being inwards, its sinking deeper into itself. Thus the explication of the notion in the sphere of being does two things: it brings out the totality of being, and it abolishes the immediacy of being, or the form of being as such. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

* WISDOM TROVE *

1:The true is the whole. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

2:God is the absolute truth... ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

3:History as the slaughter-bench ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

4:There are Plebes in all classes. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

5:I have the courage to be mistaken. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

6:War is progress, peace is stagnation. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

7:World history is a court of judgment. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

8:No man is a hero to his valet de chamber ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

9:Philosophy is the history of philosophy. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

10:Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

11:In a true tragedy, both parties must be right. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

12:The more certain our knowledge the less we know. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

13:The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

14:The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

15:The real is the rational and the rational is the real. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

16:History teaches us that man learns nothing from history ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

17:In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

18:We learn from history that we do not learn from history ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

19:To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

20:What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

21:To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

22:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

23:Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

24:Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

25:Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

26:What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

27:Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

28:Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

29:God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

30:Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

31:The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

32:Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

33:Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

34:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

35:If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

36:The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

37:We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

38:Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

39:The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

40:The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

41:Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

42:To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

43:An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

44:Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

45:Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

46:The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

47:History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

48:The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

49:Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

50:The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

51:The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

52:The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

53:What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

54:Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

55:The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

56:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

57:A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

58:India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

59:Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

60:The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

61: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, @wisdomtrove

62:It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

63:No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

64:The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

65:All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

66:An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

67:Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

68:Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

69:Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

70: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, @wisdomtrove

71: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, @wisdomtrove

72:History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

73:Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

74:To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

75:Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

76:On the stage on which we are observing it, ‚Äî Universal History ‚Äî Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

77: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, @wisdomtrove

78: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, @wisdomtrove

79:People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

80: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, @wisdomtrove

81: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. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

82:As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

83: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, @wisdomtrove

84:Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

85:The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

86:Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

87: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, @wisdomtrove

88:The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

89:When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

90:Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

91:When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

92:Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

93:The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

94:We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

95:Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

96:Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

97:The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

98:When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

99:The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony&

100:It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

101:Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

102:Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

103:Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

104:Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

105:The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

106:What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

107:The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

108:In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally ¬ó in short, with reason. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

109:The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

110:The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

111:Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

112:It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

113:In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

114:Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

115:The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

116:Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized&

117:Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

118:The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

119:Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

120:The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

121:What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

122:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

123:Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

124:The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

125:In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

126:What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

127:The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

128:The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

129:When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

130:... if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

131: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. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

132:In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain - that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

133:Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

134:The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

135:We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

136:The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses - all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

137:Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

138:When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

139:Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

140:We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and ‚Äî if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it ‚Äî we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

141:All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity... ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

142:If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master‚ passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

143:In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

144:Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why... . The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

145:Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

146:Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

147:Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself... As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called &

148:The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

149:For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

150:Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove

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1:The true is the whole. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

2:God is the absolute truth... ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

3:History as the slaughter-bench ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

4:There are Plebes in all classes. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

5:I have the courage to be mistaken. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

6:World history is a court of judgment ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

7:War is progress, peace is stagnation. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

8:World history is a court of judgment. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

9:No man is a hero to his valet de chamber ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

10:Philosophy is the history of philosophy. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

11:Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

12:Education is the art of making man ethical ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

13:In a true tragedy, both parties must be right. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

14:The more certain our knowledge the less we know. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

15:The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

16:The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

17:The real is the rational and the rational is the real. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

18:History teaches us that man learns nothing from history ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

19:In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

20:To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

21:We learn from history that we do not learn from history ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

22:To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

23:We learn from history that we do not learn from history. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

24:What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

25:To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

26:Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

27:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

28:Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

29:Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

30:Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

31:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

32:What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

33:Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

34:Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

35:Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

36:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

37:God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

38:Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

39:The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

40:Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

41:Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

42:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

43:If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

44:The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

45:We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

46:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

47:Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

48:The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

49:The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

50:The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

51:The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

52:Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

53:To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

54:An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

55:Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

56:Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

57:The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

58:History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

59:The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

60:Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

61:The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

62:The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

63:Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~ Tom Holland,

64:The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

65:The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

66:What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

67:Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

68:The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

69:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

70:We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

71:A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

72:God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

73:India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

74:Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

75:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

76:The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

77: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,

78:It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

79:No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

80:The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

81:All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

82:An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

83:An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

84:Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

85:Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

86:Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

87: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,

88:All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [T5],

89:Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

90:Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

91: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,

92: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,

93:History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

94:On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

95:Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

96:To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

97:Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

98:To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

99: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,

100: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,

101:People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

102: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,

103: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. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

104:As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

105:Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

106: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,

107:The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

108:Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

109: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,

110:The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

111:What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

112:When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

113:Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

114:As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History,

115:When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

116:Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

117:The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

118:We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

119:Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

120:Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

121:The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

122:The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

123:The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

124:When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

125:It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

126:Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

127:Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

128:The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Logic, Chapter 1,

129:Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

130:Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

131:The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

132:What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

133:The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

134:In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally in short, with reason. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

135:The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

136:The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

137:Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

138:It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

139:In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

140:Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

141:The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

142:Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

143:Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

144:The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

145:Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

146:The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

147:What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

148:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

149:Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

150:The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

151:In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

152:What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

153:The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

154:The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

155:When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

156:...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

157: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. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

158:In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

159:Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

160:The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

161:We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

162:The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

163:Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

164:When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

165:Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

166:If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

167:If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

168:We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

169:All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity... ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

170:If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

171:In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

172:Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

173:Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

174:Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

175:Natural consciousness will prove itself to be only knowledge in principle or not real knowledge. Since, however, it immediately takes itself to be the real and genuine knowledge, this pathway has a negative significance for it; what is a realization of the notion of knowledge means for it rather the ruin and overthrow of itself; for on this road it loses its own truth. Because of that, the road can be looked on as the path of doubt, or more properly a highway of despair. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit,

176:Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

177:The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

178:The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

179:For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

180:Therefore, while the revolution was undeniably a transforming event, it was not about the “fundamental transformation” of American civil society itself, as President Barack Obama would proclaim about his own election. Moreover, its purpose and principles were the antithesis of and incompatible with the philosophies that undergird the modern Progressive Movement, such as those espoused by German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, and later American progressive intellectuals including Herbert Croly, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey, and Walter Weyl, among others. ~ Mark R Levin,

181:Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

182:Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

183:...this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

184:Being is the notion implicit only: its special forms have the predicate 'is'; when they are distinguished they are each of them an 'other': and the shape which dialectic takes in them, i.e. their further specialisation, is passing over into another. This further determination, or specialisation, is at once a forth-putting and in that way a disengaging of the notion implicit in being; and at the same time the withdrawing of being inwards, its sinking deeper into itself. Thus the explication of the notion in the sphere of being does two things: it brings out the totality of being, and it abolishes the immediacy of being, or the form of being as such. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

185:The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass, whose movement and action would be elemental, irrational, savage, and terrible."

"Public opinion deserves ... to be esteemed as much as to be despised; to be despised for its concrete consciousness and expression, to be esteemed for its essential fundamental principle, which only shines, more or less dimly, through its concrete expression."

"The definition of the freedom of the press as freedom to say and write what one pleases, is parallel to the one of freedom in general, viz., as freedom to do what one pleases. Such a view belongs to the uneducated crudity and superficiality of naïve thinking."

"In public opinion all is false and true, but to discover the truth in it is the business of the great man. The great man of his time is he who expresses the will and the meaning of that time, and then brings it to completion; he acts according to the inner spirit and essence of his time, which he realizes. And he who does not understand how to despise public opinion, as it makes itself heard here and there, will never accomplish anything great."

"The laws of morality are not accidental, but are essentially Rational. It is the very object of the State that what is essential in the practical activity of men, and in their dispositions, should be duly recognized; that it should have a manifest existence, and maintain its position. It is the absolute interest of Reason that this moral Whole should exist; and herein lies the justification and merit of heroes who have founded states - however rude these may have been."

"Such are all great historical men, whose own particular aims involve those large issues which are the will of the World Spirit. ... World historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must be recognized as its clear-sighted ones; their deeds, their words are the best of that time. Great men have formed purposes to satisfy themselves, not others."

"A World-Historical individual is devoted to the One Aim, regardless of all else. It is even possible that such men may treat other great, even sacred interests inconsiderately; conduct which is indeed obnoxious to moral reprehension. But so mighty a form must trample down many an innocent flower or crush to pieces many an object in its path. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,

186:76. David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79. Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
80. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
82. James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers
85. Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth – Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma
92. Carl von Clausewitz – On War
93. Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
94. Lord Byron – Don Juan
95. Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism
96. Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy
99. Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
102. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
103. John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
104. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
105. Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
106. Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden
108. Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto
109. George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch
110. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
112. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories
113. Henrik Ibsen – Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
115. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
116. William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals;The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121. George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces ~ Mortimer J Adler,

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