Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelEverything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhen Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelBefore the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHistory in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGenuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIn history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAfrica has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhat history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelBeauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel