Quote

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
Philosopher
Philosophy Historian
University Teacher
G. W. F. Hegel
Hegel
Littles
Little
Philosophical
Goodness
Mere
Achieve
Nature
Power

More quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Image
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
The 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 Hegel
Image
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
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 Hegel
Image
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
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 Hegel
Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
God is the absolute truth...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel