Quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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.

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

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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

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.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

World history is a court of judgment

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

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

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

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

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

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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.