Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
-
-
The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
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 -
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Education 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 -
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 -
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 -
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
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 -
Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL