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Phenomenology of Spirit QUOTES

Phenomenology of Spirit QUOTES

1 " Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

2 " It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

3 " 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 the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

4 " 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). "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

5 " [T]he vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

6 " The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

7 " is—it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

8 " It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

9 " Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefühle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu können. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

10 " ... por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

11 " §10 . . . Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self-consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep, is nothing but dreams. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

12 " La belleza carente de fuerza odia al entendimiento porque éste exige de ella lo que no está en condiciones de dar. Pero la vida del espíritu no es la vida que se asusta ante la muerte y se mantiene pura de la desolación, sino la que sabe afrontarla y mantenerse en ella. El espíritu sólo conquista su verdad cuando es capaz de encontrarse a sí mismo en el absoluto desgarramiento. El espíritu no es esta potencia como lo positivo que se aparta de lo negativo, como cuando decimos de algo que no es nada o que es falso y, hecho esto, pasamos sin más a otra cosa, sino que sólo es esta potencia cuando mira cara a cara a lo negativo y permanece cerca de ello. Esta permanencia [en lo negativo] es la fuerza mágica que hace que lo negativo vuelva al ser. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

13 " Wahrheit heißt Übereinstimmung des Begriffs mit seiner Wirklichkeit. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

14 " It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

15 " To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

16 " The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

17 " Consciousness knows something; this something is the essence or is per se. This object, however, is also the per se, the inherent reality, for consciousness. Hence comes ambiguity of this truth. Consciousness, as we see, has now two objects: one is the first per se, the second is the existence for consciousness of this per se. The last object appears at first sight to be merely the reflection of consciousness into itself, i.e. an idea not of an object, but solely of its knowledge of that first object. But, as was already indicated, by that very process the first object is altered; it ceases to be what is per se, and becomes consciously something which is per se only for consciousness. Consequently, then, what this real per se is for consciousness is truth: which, however, means that this is the essential reality, or the object which consciousness has. This new object contains the nothingness of the first; the new object is the experience concerning that first object. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

18 " from the chalice of this realm of spirits
foams forth Him his own infinitude. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

19 " from the chalice of this realm of spirits
foams forth for Him his own infinitude. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit

20 " We must hold to the conviction that it is the nature of truth to prevail when its time has come, and that it appears only when this time has come, and therefore never appears prematurely, nor finds a public not ripe to receive it; also we must accept that the individual needs that this should be so in order to verify what is as yet a matter for himself alone, and to experience the conviction, which in the first place belongs only to a particular individual, as something universally held. "

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Phenomenology of Spirit