History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELAmerica 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 HEGELToo fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELShould we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELOnce the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELBy Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELGenuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPeople who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELNo man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEducation in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL