Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes - Page 2

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

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.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

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.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

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.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

There are Plebes in all classes.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

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.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

The true is the whole.

God is the absolute truth...