230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the state from social petrification and stagnation

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

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

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

customs must be introduced that require, if one is to be aware of their necessity and utility, either trusting belief or habituation from childhood on. Thus it is evident that a Volksreligion, if as the concept of religion implies its teaching is to be efficacious in active life, cannot possibly be constructed out of sheer reason. Positive religion necessarily rests on faith in the tradition by which it is handed down to us.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

War is progress, peace is stagnation