Citate din Hegel

“Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

“Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty
a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of
private interests which is thereby designated.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

“To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

“The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to
the state of the world as he so far views it.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other
hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is
Freedom.
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History

It is a result of speculative Philosophy that Freedom is the sole truth of Spirit.
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History

Eastern nations knew only that one is free; the Greek and Roman world only that some are free;
while we know that all men absolutely (man as man) are free
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History

A World-historical individual is not so unwise as to indulge a
variety of wishes to divide his regards. He is devoted to the One
Aim, regardless of all else. It is even possible that such men may
treat other great, even sacred interests, inconsiderately; conduct
which is indeed obnoxious to moral reprehension.
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History

Thus the question would arise: What is the material in which the Ideal of Reason is
wrought out? The primary answer would be — Personality itself — human desires —
Subjectivity generally.
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History

The State is the Idea of Spirit in the external manifestation of
human Will and its Freedom.
-- G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History