230 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

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.

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber