Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosopher

1770-08-27

Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• World history is a court of judgment

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• The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

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• Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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• Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

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• If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

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• If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

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• World history is a court of judgment

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

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• The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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• Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

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• Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

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• When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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• Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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• I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

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• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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• World history is a court of judgment.

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• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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