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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes about Character

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Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Character, Liberty, Fundamentals

The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Character, Soul, Utterance
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1971). “Hegel's Philosophy of Mind”, p.265, Library of Alexandria

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Character, Mean, Quality
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Spring, Character, Passion
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.21

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy, Character, Purpose
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.25, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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