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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
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.
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
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
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.
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
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.
Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
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.
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.