Hegel was a person whose words stimulated a revolution in Germany.
Hegel is known to be the founder of German philosophy and idealism. These thoughts revolve around religion, science, art, ethics, and history.
Hegel's quotes delve into the concept of slavery and other social evils as well. Hegel believed that God is infinite, that he is not a being as he has immense powers. He felt that all that we see are virtual images. Read these quotes here at Kidadl and get enlightened.
Hegel Quotes On History
Here are a few chosen Hegel quotes related to history. Read them to know about the formal condition in Germany.
"Freedom is the truth of necessity."
- 'Science Of Logic', 1816.
"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational."
- 'Philosophy Of Right', 1821.
"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."
-'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"Man is an end in himself only by virtue of the divine in him – that which we designated at the outset as Reason, or, insofar as it has activity and power of self-determination, as Freedom."
- 'General Introduction To The Philosophy Of History', 1831.
"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 – perhaps in a contest between North and South America. It is a land of desire for all those who are wary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe."
- 'Philosophy Of History', 1831.
"Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"The History of the World is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"World history is a court of judgment."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
Hegel Quotes On Philosophy
Philosophy has been simplified in these Hegel Quotes.
"In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world’s culture delineated in faint outline."
- 'The Phenomenology Of Spirit', 1807.
"Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium.
The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle.
The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation."
-'Encyclopedia Of The Philosophical Sciences', 1830.
"Life is essentially the concept which realises itself only through self-division and reunification."
-'Philosophy Of Nature', 1830.
"The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"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."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"Everything depends on grasping and expressing the ultimate truth not as Substance but as Subject as well."
-Preface to the 'Phenomenology Of Spirit', 1807.
"If we say ‘all animals’, that does not pass for zoology; for the same reason we see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them."
-Preface to the 'Phenomenology Of Spirit', 1807.
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
Hegel Quotes On Relationship
Read these Hegel Quotes related to relationships that you might be able to relate to.
"Absolute substance ... is the unity of the different self-related and self-existent self-consciousnesses in the perfect freedom and independence of their opposition as component elements of that substance: Ego that is “we”, a plurality of Egos, and “we” that is a single Ego. Consciousness first finds in self-consciousness."
-'The Phenomenology Of Spirit', 1807.
"The master is in possession of a surplus of what is physically necessary; the servant lacks it, and indeed in such a way that the surplus and the lack of it are not accidental aspects but the indifference of necessary needs."
-'System Of Ethical Life', 1803.
"The richer in relationships thoughts become, the more confused and meaningless becomes their representation in such forms as numbers."
-'Science Of Logic', 1816.
"The spoken word unites the objectivity of the corporeal sign with the subjectivity of gesture, the articulation of the latter with the self-awareness of the former."
-'System Of Ethical Life', 1803.
"This ideal and rational middle term is speech, the tool of reason, the child of intelligent beings."
-'System Of Ethical Life', 1803.
"The wealthy man is directly compelled to modify his relation of mastery, and even others’ distrust for it, by permitting a more general participation in it."
-Jena Lectures, 1805.
"Spirit is the "nature" of individuals, their immediate substance, and its movement and necessity; it is as much the personal consciousness in their existence as it is their pure consciousness, their life, their actuality."
-Jena Lectures, 1805.
"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value."
- 'Lectures On The Philosophy Of History', 1837.
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"Only what is living feels a lack."
-'Philosophy of Nature', 1817.
Hegel Quotes On Science Of Logic
Science has logic. This has been beautifully explained in the quotes below.
"I possess my life and my body, like other things, only in so far as my will is in them."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"Education is the art of making man ethical."
-'Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right', 1820.
"What we want is to combine in our process of inquiry the action of the forms of thought with a criticism of them. The forms of thought must be studied in their essential nature and complete development: they are at once the object of research and the action of that object.
This is Dialectic, instead of being brought to bear upon the categories from without, it is immanent in their own action."
-'Shorter Logic', 1830.
"Enjoying however an absolute liberty, the Idea does not merely pass over into life: in its own absolute truth it resolves to let the ‘moment’ of its particularity, or of the first characterization and other-being, the immediate idea, as its reflected image, go forth freely as Nature."
-Concluding paragraph of 'The Shorter Logic', 1830.
"The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.
The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole."
- 'Preface To The Phenomenology Of Spirit', 1807.
"That the manners of the Spartans are the cause of their constitution and their constitution conversely the cause of their manners, may no doubt be in a way correct. But, as we have comprehended neither the manners nor the constitution of the nation, the result of such reflections can never be final or satisfactory.
The satisfactory point will be reached only when these two, as well as all other, special aspects of Spartan life and Spartan history, are seen to be founded in a Notion"
- 'Shorter Logic', 1830.
"The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended."
- 'Science Of Logic', 1816.
"It is only after profound acquaintance with the other sciences that logic ceases to be for subjective spirit a merely abstract universal and reveals itself as the universal which embraces within itself the wealth of the particular– just as the same proverb, in the mouth of a youth who understands it quite well, does not possess the wide range of meaning which it has in the mind of a man with the experience of a lifetime behind him, for who, the meaning is expressed in all its power."
- 'The Science Of Logic', 1812.
