The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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 p...
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and...
Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular. By
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that the...
History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself...
Por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido.
The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level. (1807, § 69).
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
Man is an animal, but even in his animalfunctions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; hebecomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as,for instance, the process of d...
But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to w...
But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.
The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of...