Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Dialectical philosophy
Sayings by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.
Spirit is the only reality.
Truth is the whole.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
The State is the actuality of the ethical Idea.
Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.
To be independent of the world is the only means of enjoying it.
The individual, for as much as he is a particular, is a natural being.
The famous principle, 'Know thyself,' is not merely an exhortation to self-knowledge, but also, and more fundamentally, a demand for knowledge of the nature of Spirit.
The State is the divine idea as it exists on earth.
The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the sovereign of the world; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.
The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
The Absolute is Spirit.
The true is the bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk; and because every member as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately—the revel is just as much transparent and simple repose.
The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.
The finite is the non-existent.
Religion is the self-consciousness of God.
The State is the march of God through the world.
The beautiful is the sensible appearance of the Idea.