4 quotes
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)
Discord which appears at first to be a lamentable breach and dissolution of the unity of a party, is really the crowning proof of its success.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
The life of God — the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things — may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)