List of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

The Sole Work And Deed Of Universal Freedom Is Therefore Death, A Death Too Which Has No Inner Significance Or Filling, For What Is Negated Is The Empty Point Of The Absolutely Free Self. It Is Thus The Coldest And Meanest Of All Deaths, With No More Significance Than Cutting Off A Head Of Cabbage Or Swallowing A Mouthful Of Water.

The Evident Character Of This Defective Cognition Of Which Mathematics Is Proud, And On Which It Plumes Itself Before Philosophy, Rests Solely On The Poverty Of Its Purpose And The Defectiveness Of Its Stuff, And Is Therefore Of A Kind That Philosophy Must Spurn

When Philosophy With Its Abstractions Paints Grey In Grey, The Freshness And Life Of Youth Has Gone, The Reconciliation Is Not A Reconciliation In The Actual, But In The Ideal World.

Reading The Morning Newspaper Is The Realist's Morning . One Orients One's Attitude Toward The Either By Or By What The World Is. The Former Gives As Much Security As The Latter, In That One Knows How One Stands.

The Man Whom Philosophy Leaves Cold, And The Man Whom Real Faith Does Not Illuminate, May Be Assured That The Fault Lies In Them, Not In Knowledge And Faith. The Former Is Still An Alien To Philosophy, The Latter An Alien To Faith.

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.

The First Glance At History Convinces Us That The Actions Of Men Proceed From Their Needs, Their Passions, Their Characters And Talents; And Impresses Us With The Belief That Such Needs, Passions And Interests Are The Sole Spring Of Actions.

Because Of Its Concrete Content, Sense-certainty Immediately Appears As The Richest Kind Of Knowledge, Indeed A Knowledge Of Infinite Wealth For Which No Bounds Can Be Found, Either When We Reach Out Into Space And Time In Which It Is Dispersed, Or When We Take A Bit Of This Wealth, And By Division Enter Into It. Moreover, Sense-certainty Appears To Be The Truest Knowledge ... But, In The Event, This Very Certainty Proves Itself To Be The Most Abstract And Poorest Truth. All That It Says About What It Knows Is Just That It Is; And Its Truth Contains Nothing But The Sheer Being Of The Thing.

The Person Must Give Himself An External Sphere Of Freedom In Order To Have Being As Idea.

The Beginning Of Religion, More Precisely Its Content, Is The Concept Of Religion Itself, That God Is The Absolute Truth, The Truth Of All Things, And Subjectively That Religion Alone Is The Absolutely True Knoweldge.

In Duty The Individual Acquires His Substantive Freedom

In The Case Of All Other Sciences, Arts, Skills, And Crafts, Everyone Is Convinced That A Complex And Laborious Programme Of Learning And Practice Is Necessary For Competence. Yet When It Comes To Philosophy, There Seems To Be A Currently Prevailing Prejudice To The Effect That, Although Not Everyone Who Has Eyes And Fingers, And Is Given Leather And Last, Is At Once In A Position To Make Shoes, Everyone Nevertheless Immediately Understands How To Philosophize.