When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHistory is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSince philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel