32+ G. W. F. Hegel Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best G. W. F. Hegel quotes and sayings.

Top 10 G. W. F. Hegel Quotes

1. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
2. The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
3. An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
4. No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
5. Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
6. Education is the art of making man ethical.
7. When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
8. Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
9. Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
10. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

G. W. F. Hegel Short Quotes

• The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
• The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
• The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
• If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
• The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
• What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

G. W. F. Hegel Famous Quotes And Sayings

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. — G. W. F. Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. — G. W. F. Hegel

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. — G. W. F. Hegel

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? — G. W. F. Hegel

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. — G. W. F. Hegel

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. — G. W. F. Hegel

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. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe. — G. W. F. Hegel

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. — G. W. F. Hegel

What experience and history teach is this--that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. — G. W. F. Hegel

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. — G. W. F. Hegel

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. — G. W. F. Hegel

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. — G. W. F. Hegel

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. — G. W. F. Hegel

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. — G. W. F. Hegel

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. — G. W. F. Hegel

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. — G. W. F. Hegel