{"id":2353,"date":"2023-11-27T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/quotes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:47:13","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A selection of pointed sentences from the <em>Elements of the Philosophy of Right<\/em>, arranged in the order of Preface and paragraphs. \u201cZ\u201d marks an oral addition (<em>Zusatz<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gl-quote-carousel\" id=\"gl-quote-carousel-en\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\">\n<div class=\"gl-qc-frame\">\n<div class=\"gl-qc-track\">\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card is-active\" data-index=\"0\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cWhat is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"\/en\/\">Preface<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cTo comprehend what is is the task of philosophy, for what is, is reason.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"\/en\/\">Preface<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cAs far as the individual is concerned, each is at any rate a son of his time; so philosophy, too, is its own time comprehended in thought.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"\/en\/\">Preface<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cWhen philosophy paints its grey in grey, a shape of life has grown old, and it cannot be rejuvenated, but only recognized, by the grey in grey; the owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of the dusk.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"\/en\/\">Preface<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe philosophical science of right has as its object the Idea of right, the concept of right and its actualization.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/1\/\">\u00a7 1<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe Idea of right is freedom.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/1\/\">\u00a7 1<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cWhoever has not thought himself is not free \u2013 whoever is not free has not thought himself, that is, not in such a way that this thinking of oneself, this being universal, is precisely his being \u2013\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/5\/#comment-1923\">Note on \u00a7 5<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"7\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe soil of right is the spiritual in general, and its more precise place and point of departure is the will, which is free, so that freedom constitutes its substance and determination, and the system of right is the realm of actualized freedom, the world of spirit brought forth out of itself, as a second nature.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/4\/\">\u00a7 4<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"8\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cEvery representation is a generalization, and this belongs to thought.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/4\/\">\u00a7 4 Z<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe rational is the highway on which everyone travels, where no one stands out.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/15\/\">\u00a7 15 Z<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe person must give itself an external sphere of its freedom in order to be as Idea.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/41\/\">\u00a7 41<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"11\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cOnly he can be compelled to do something who is willing to let himself be compelled.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/91\/\">\u00a7 91<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"12\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cPassionate love and marriage are two different things\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/162\/\">\u00a7 162<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"13\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cIf women are at the head of government, the state is in danger, for they act not according to the demands of universality but according to contingent inclination and opinion.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/166\/\">\u00a7 166 Z<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"14\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe tendency of social conditions toward the indeterminate multiplication and specification of needs, means, and enjoyments \u2013 which, like the distinction between natural and cultivated need, has no limits \u2013 namely luxury, is equally an infinite increase of dependence and want, which has to contend with a matter offering infinite resistance, namely with external means of the particular kind that is the property of the free will, and which is thus absolutely hard.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/195\/\">\u00a7 195<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"15\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe abstraction of producing, moreover, makes labour ever more mechanical, until finally the human being is able to step aside and let the machine take his place.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/198\/\">\u00a7 198<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"16\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cIn this dependence and reciprocity of labour and the satisfaction of needs, subjective selfishness turns into a contribution to the satisfaction of the needs of everyone else \u2013 into the mediation of the particular through the universal as a dialectical movement, so that, in acquiring, producing, and enjoying on his own account, each thereby produces and acquires for the enjoyment of all the others.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/199\/\">\u00a7 199<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"17\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThat the individual at first (that is, especially in youth) resists the idea of deciding upon a particular estate, and regards this as a restriction on his universal vocation and as a merely external necessity, lies in the abstract thinking that stops short at the universal and hence the unreal, and fails to recognize that, in order to exist at all, the concept must in general enter into the distinction between the concept and its reality, and hence into determinacy and particularity, and that only in this way can it gain actuality and ethical objectivity.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/207\/\">\u00a7 207<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"18\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cA human being counts as such because he is a human being, not because he is a Jew, Catholic, Protestant, German, Italian, etc. This consciousness, for which thought is valid, is of infinite importance \u2013 deficient only when it fixes itself, say, as cosmopolitanism, in opposition to the concrete life of the state.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/209\/\">\u00a7 209<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"19\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cTo posit something as universal \u2013 that is, to bring it to consciousness as universal \u2013 is, as is well known, to think.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/211\/\">\u00a7 211<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"20\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cWhen a large mass of people sinks below the level of a certain standard of living \u2013 one that automatically regulates itself as the standard necessary for a member of society \u2013 and thereby loses that feeling of right, integrity, and honour which comes from supporting oneself by one&#8217;s own activity and work, this leads to the creation of a rabble, which in turn makes it far easier for disproportionate wealth to be concentrated in a few hands.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/244\/\">\u00a7 244<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"21\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cIt is thereby revealed that, despite an excess of wealth, civil society is not wealthy enough \u2013 that is, its own resources are insufficient \u2013 to check excessive poverty and the creation of a rabble.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/245\/\">\u00a7 245<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"22\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe state is the actuality of the ethical Idea.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/257\/\">\u00a7 257<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"23\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cThe case is rather this: that the people, insofar as this word denotes a particular part of the members of a state, expresses that part which does not know what it wills.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/301\/\">\u00a7 301<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"24\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cPublic opinion deserves to be as much respected as despised.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/318\/\">\u00a7 318<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gl-qc-card\" data-index=\"25\" style=\"display:none\"><div class=\"gl-qc-quote\"><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-open\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/span><p>\u201cNations that are at odds with themselves internally gain inner peace through wars abroad.\u201d<\/p><span class=\"gl-qc-mark gl-qc-mark-close\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201d<\/span><\/div><div class=\"gl-qc-divider\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"gl-qc-divider-dot\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"gl-qc-cite\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/324\/\">\u00a7 324 Z<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gl-qc-controls\">\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"gl-qc-btn gl-qc-prev\" aria-label=\"Previous quote\">\u2039<\/button>\n<div class=\"gl-qc-status\"><span class=\"gl-qc-current\">1<\/span> \/ <span class=\"gl-qc-total\">26<\/span><\/div>\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"gl-qc-btn 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