230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

God is the absolute truth.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.

History as the slaughter-bench.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.

It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and.