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 More Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel More Quotes From Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel inspiration men art 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 development space ideas Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel known spiritual Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel occupation serious want Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel valuable objects life 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 land lying america The more certain our knowledge the less we know. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel certain knows 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 space ideas art 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negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself.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 objectivity perfect ideas To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel abstraction reality 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 accomplished passion form 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 night order thinking The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel substance essence spirit A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel suits wife men 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 goes-on comfort discovery Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel philosophical divine worship 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 independent self doubt An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel mean ideas thinking The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel weakness struggle courage The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel philosophical wings fall
