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.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAll education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIt is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel