Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just...

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just...

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But...

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize...

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything...

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything...

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come...

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come...

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of...

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of...

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of...

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of...

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

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

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

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far...

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far...

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

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

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only...

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only...

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

The men who make history have not time to write it

The men who make history have not time to write it

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name...

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name...