Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quote: "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"

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

World history is a court of judgment.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize mean...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see thei...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Education is the art of making man ethical.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The re...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in u...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the asserti...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to ...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Zu einem wahrhaften Menschen gehören viele Götter, und er verschließt in seinem Herzen alle die M...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, a...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he f...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general exp...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their pas...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything fr...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his o...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Education is the art of making man ethical
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see thei...
GEORG HEGEL

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG HEGEL

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusia...
GEORG HEGEL

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true...
GEORG HEGEL

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
FRIEDRICH HEGEL

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG W. HEGEL

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
GEORG W. HEGEL

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
FRIEDRICH (WILHELM) NIETZSCHE

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean ...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
HEGEL

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dw...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consumin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separati...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chao...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and est...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion nece...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic scie...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written aga...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

Farmers are on the roads because they are trying to get to their place of work, just as motorists ar...
CAROLYN HEGEL

When motorists see a slow-moving vehicle sign or flashing lights, they need to slow down. Farm machi...
CAROLYN HEGEL

Safety is everyone's responsibility. It doesn't matter if you are right if you are injured badly or ...
CAROLYN HEGEL

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
GEORGE HEGEL

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music
FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, t...
WILHELM WUNDT

I didn't think; I experimented.
WILHELM ROENTGEN

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...
WILHELM REICH

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
WILHELM STEKEL

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...
WILHELM REICH

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...
WILHELM REICH

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...
WILHELM REICH

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...
WILHELM REICH

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...
WILHELM REICH

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one...
WILHELM STEKEL

Anxiety is fear of one's self.
WILHELM STEKEL

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...
WILHELM REICH

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...
WILHELM REICH

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive...
WILHELM WUNDT

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense per...
WILHELM WUNDT

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, wit...
WILHELM WUNDT

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
WILHELM STEINITZ

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the cont...
WILHELM WUNDT

I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM CANARIS

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But the...
DOUG WILHELM

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can ...
WILHELM OSTWALD

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is g...
WILHELM DILTHEY

As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackl...
WILHELM WIEN

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the conc...
WILHELM OSTWALD

Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in ...
WILHELM WIEN

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and fac...
WILHELM WUNDT

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the ...
WILHELM KEITEL

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
KAISER WILHELM

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the tota...
WILHELM DILTHEY

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than ...
WILHELM OSTWALD

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...
WILHELM REICH

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensabl...
WILHELM WUNDT

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, wh...
WILHELM WUNDT

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but ra...
WILHELM DILTHEY

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity...
WILHELM DILTHEY

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychol...
WILHELM WUNDT

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the...
WILHELM FRICK

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the matur...
WILHELM STEKEL

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
WILHELM DILTHEY

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot...
JOE WILHELM

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
WILHELM FRICK

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Con...
WILHELM KEITEL

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
WILHELM KEITEL

I understand there are some differences between the hotel industry and the gaming industry. Why the ...
JOHN WILHELM

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
WILHELM STEINITZ

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always ...
WILHELM DILTHEY

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold bet...
WILHELM WUNDT

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediatel...
WILHELM OSTWALD

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...
WILHELM OSTWALD

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the...
WILHELM WUNDT

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hyp...
WILHELM WUNDT

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the fact...
WILHELM WUNDT

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of abso...
WILHELM WIEN

We have some really loyal people with us who helped to brand the Franklin name and reputation. We wi...
WILHELM MEYA

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
WILHELM STEINITZ

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
WILHELM STEINITZ

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...
WILHELM REICH

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regar...
WILHELM WUNDT

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the in...
WILHELM WUNDT

The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.
WILHELM STEINITZ

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one'...
WILHELM DILTHEY

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also...
WILHELM DILTHEY

A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se ...
WILHELM REICH

Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psycholo...
WILHELM REICH

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

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