To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel More Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel More Quotes From Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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 life-and-death essentials passing-away The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel freedom wisdom history 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 mind doe men Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel perceive evil 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 sight food art 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 time philosophy children 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 vanity curiosity unhappy 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 fashion real art 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 development essence truth 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 modern moments essence 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 states scene hero 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 family freedom children People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel finite light people The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel philosopher philosophy firsts Philosophy is the history of philosophy. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel teaching-learning teaching philosophy 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 objectivity spiritual reality 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 slave morality reality The true is the whole. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel whole 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 individuality passion desire In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel acquire individual duty
