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Quotes from Elements of the Philosophy of Right — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770–1831 Germany

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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)

"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)

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

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.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

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.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

What the English call “comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

Die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung ihren Flug.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

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