A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
Interpretation
Fulfillment in life comes from having meaningful work and a loving relationship.
This quote by Hegel suggests that true contentment in life is achieved when an individual finds work that aligns with their passions and has a loving partner. It emphasizes the importance of both professional fulfillment and personal relationships in achieving a balanced and satisfying life.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one could say, 'As Hegel suggests, let us celebrate the union of love and the joy of meaningful work that brings happiness to both of your lives.'
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.
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