230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason’s intentions.

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

The system of logic is the realm of shadows, the world of simple essentialities, freed of all sensuous concretion. To study this science, to dwell and to labor in this realm of shadows, is the absolute culture and discipline of consciousness.

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

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.

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.