230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed.

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.