Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
truth essence development
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.
pages soil periods
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
engagement and-love virtue
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
philosophical reasonable
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
worship divine fairs
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
catholic position oppressed
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
time children philosophy
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
expression mind depth
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
pieces individual whole
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
party tragedy
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
objectivity ideas perfect
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.
passion form accomplished
Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
days-gone-by atheism proof
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
peace war philosophical
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.