Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes about Soul

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Animal, Soul, Body

Georg H. W. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2008). “Philosophy of Right”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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

In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Intelligent, Objectivity, Soul

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2015). “Hegel's Philosophy of Mind”, p.275, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel