Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quotes - page 4

We must first of all, however, definitely understand, in reference to the end we have in view, that it is not the concern of philosophy to produce religion in any individual. Its existence is, on the contrary, presupposed as forming what is fundamental in every one. So far as man s essential nature is concerned, nothing new is to be introduced into him. To try to do this would be as absurd as to give a dog printed writings to chew, under the idea that in this way you could put mind into it. It may happen that religion is awakened in the heart by means of philosophical knowledge, but it is not necessarily so. It is not the purpose of philosophy to edify, and quite as little is it necessary for it to make good its claims by showing in any particular case that it must produce religious feeling in the individual. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
In the "fulfillment” of both the laws and duty, ... the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Among the Romans in Christian times Mithras-worship as very widely spread, and so late as the Middle Ages we meet with a secret Mithras-worship ostensibly connected with the order of the Knights-Templars. Mithras thrusting the knife into the neck of the ox is a figurative representation belonging essentially to the cult of Mithras, of which examples have been frequently found in Europe. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Very similar were the views expressed by Raymundus of Sabunde or Sabeyde, a Spaniard of the fifteenth century, and professor at Toulouse about the year 1437. In his theologia natural is, which he handled in a speculative spirit, he dealt with the Nature of things, and with the revelation of God in Nature and in the history of the God-man. He sought to prove to unbelievers the Being, the trinity, the incarnation, the life, and the revelation of God in Nature, and in the history of the God-man, basing his arguments on Reason. From the contemplation of Nature he rises to God; and in the same way he reaches morality from; observation of man's inner nature. This purer and simpler style must be set off against the other, if we are to do justice to the Scholastic theologians in their turn. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The first remark we have to make, and which - though already presented more than once - cannot be too often repeated when the occasion seems to call for it, - is that what we call principle, aim, destiny, or the nature and idea of Spirit, is something merely general and abstract. Principle - Plan of Existence - Law - is a hidden, undeveloped essence, which as such - however true in itself - is not completely real. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The fate of the Jewish people is the fate of Macbeth who stepped out of nature itself, clung to alien beings, and so in their service had to trample and slay everything holy in human nature. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law ... loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The goal to be reached is the mind's insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary, ... because by nothing less could that all-pervading mind ever manage to become conscious of what itself is - for that reason, the individual mind, in the nature of the case, cannot expect by less toil to grasp what its own substance contains. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself - whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance - is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality - of what is essentially and ultimately true and real - of spirit as the true and essential being. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Not only must philosophy be in agreement with our empirical knowledge of Nature, but the origin and formation of the Philosophy of Nature presupposes and is conditioned by empirical physics. However, the course of a science's origin and the preliminaries of its construction are one thing, while the science itself is another. In the latter, the former can no longer appear as the foundation of the science; here, the foundation must be the necessity of the Concept. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But it is rather true that the people, in so far as this term signifies a special part of the citizens, does not know what it wants. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Architecture is treated as crystallisation; sculpture, as the organic modelling of the material in its sensuous and spatial totality; painting, as the coloured surface and line; while in music, space, as such, passes into the point of time possessed of content within itself, until finally the external medium is in poetry depressed into complete insignificance. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Faith must now get what is essentially the form of mediation. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Our task does not require us to contemplate Nature as a Rational System in itself though in its own proper domain it proves itself such but simply in its relation to Spirit. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the first element God is beyond time. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
In the same way the wild tribes of North America too killed their aged who had reached decrepitude, the meaning of which is unmistakable, namely, that man is not to perish by means of nature, but is to have due honour rendered to him at human hands. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Only one word more concerning the desire to teach the world what it ought to be. For such a purpose philosophy at least always comes too late. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In connection with Kant we must here begin by speaking of Jacobi, whose philosophy is contemporaneous with that of Kant. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel