Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 August 1770
CountryGermany
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.
morning attitude reading
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.
ideas space development
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
fall passion fate
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.
looks world aspect
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
philosophical history world
World history is a court of judgment.
real faults individual
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.