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 them at once 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
The living substance is being which is in truth Subject, or, what is the same, is in truth actual only in so far as it is the movement of positing itself, or is the mediation of its self-othering with itself.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Reason is the conscious certainty of being all reality.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Alles was ist, ist vernĂĽnftig (Everything that is, is reasonable).Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is this very individuality of things, the pure actuality or being of the 'this' of sense or the urbane robustness of the real per se, which proves to be the purest abstraction.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When we hear the other side, we justly go back to the beginning and allow it to be again, but we do not on that account need to let ourselves be reduced to the state of innocence; that is, of ignorance.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Only insofar as it has to do with this negativity does dialectic cease to be random and contingent.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What experience makes us acquainted with is partly the accidental in this form, partly the necessity concealed within the accidental, or the essence that forms the basis of the accidental.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Instead of being the life of the process the universal becomes the lifeless essence.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel