Quotes by "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

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.

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

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.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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

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

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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

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

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.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

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

World history is a court of judgment.