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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
Revealed religion is manifested religion, because in it God has become wholly manifest.
Volume 1 (1827)
What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
Faith must now get what is essentially the form of mediation.
Volume 1 (1827)
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
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.
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
Philosophy is that which grasps its own era in thought.
The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its nature, it is our business to investigate.
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)
The owl of Minerva first begins her flight with the onset of dusk.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for.
A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life of knowledge and faith.
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)
"Any idea is a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize something means to think it."
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)
The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)