The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.”.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. “The Philosophy of History”, p.19, Courier Corporation, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1990). google_ad_slot = "6885402617"; The sentiment of art like the religious sentiment, like scientific curiosity, is born of wonder; the man who wonders at nothing lives in a state of imbecility and stupidity.
“Impulses must be freed from the form of direct subjection to nature.” Georg Hegel, 26. Know first of all that there is no single answer to this question. To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. They are conflicts between two rights.”, “The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.”, “Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.”, “To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.”, “The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”, “History is not the soil of happiness. “This ideal and rational middle term is speech, the tool of reason, the child of intelligent beings.” Georg Hegel, 27. Independent from any institution or philosophical thought, the site is maintained by a team of former students in human sciences, now professors or journalists. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. They are conflicts between two rights. 5. The founding principle of philosophy is perhaps the astonishment, source of the questions. Before being a field of study, it is above all a way of seeing the world, of questioning it. “Man is free, this is certainly the substantial nature of man; and not only is this liberty not relinquished in the state, but it is actually in the state that it is first realised. Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. 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. Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. As a true architect, Hegel has built a cathedral, a complete system, totalling all knowledge of his time (art, religion, philosophy, history, …). Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. “A person must translate his freedom into an external sphere in order to exist as Idea.” Georg Hegel, 17. The more certain our knowledge the less we know. and be the first to receive all the latest updates! Mark this well, you proud men of action! We're on a mission of turning inspiring quotes into beautiful wallpapers. Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles … you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”, “Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right – two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.”, “As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason’s intentions.