Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes on Mind
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and the most influential systematic thinker of the German Idealist tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking.”
Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken. ("Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse", Berlin, 1833, p. 35) -
“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.”
As quoted in Inwardness and Existence (1989) by Walter A. Davis, p. 18 -
“Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.”
Difference of the Fichtean and Schellingean System of Philosophy , cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 49 -
“Hegel , Philosophy of Mind (quoted by W. Wallace & A. V. Miller in Philosophy of Mind, Oxford 2010; also quoted in other words by Slavoj Žižek in A Glance into the Archives of Islam , Lacan dot com, 1997).”
In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as in the Far East, regarded as existent in an immediately sensory way but is conceived as the one infinite power elevated above all the multiplicity of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the word, the religion of sublimity.