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.
The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
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