Quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

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.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

I have the courage to be mistaken.

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

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.