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...
heart force organisms
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
spiritual atheist science
God is the absolute truth
animal soul body
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
vanity curiosity unhappy
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
sacrifice history finals
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
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.
catholic position oppressed
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
philosophy firsts study
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
country special momentum
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
philosophical reasonable
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
lying land america
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.
love struggle heaven
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.
mean journey goal
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 perceive
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.