Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1 Quotes

“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all determinations of right, morality, good, &c., because I am clearly master of them, and I know that if anything seems good to me I can easily subvert it, because things are only true to me in so far as they please me now.' This irony is thus only a trifling with everything, and it can transform all things into show: to this subjectivity nothing is any longer serious, for any seriousness which it has, immediately becomes dissipated again in jokes, and all noble or divine truth vanishes away or becomes mere triviality.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol 1

“Religion is a begetting of the divine spirit, not an invention of human beings but an effect of the divine at work, of the divine productive process within humanity”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures On the History of Philosophy; Volume 1

“Ученая эрудиция состоит именно в том, чтобы знать массу безполезных вещей, т.е. таких вещей которые сами по себе безсодержательны и лишены всякого интереса, а интересны для ученого эрудита только лишь потому, что он их знает.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato