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...
night thinking order
When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.
reality spirit stage
On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
time art ends
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
god pain play
The life of God — the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things — may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.
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.
whole
The true is the whole.
art ideas space
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
real reasonable
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
character soul utterance
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.
religion absolute-truth absolutes
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
reality abstraction
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
morning prayer reading
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
philosophy people possibility
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
philosophy west
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.