Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes about Heart

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is,

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Heart, Men, Essence

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Heart, Force, Organisms

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller (1970). “Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Being Part Two of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Translated from Nicolin and Pöggeler's Edition (1959), and from the Zusätze in Michelet's Text (1847)”, p.371, Oxford University Press

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Heart, Self, Humanity

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.226, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.