The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhat history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAn idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIn the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel