Only in the state does man have a rational existence…Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth and spiritual reality he possesses are his solely by virtue of the state.


Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction (1830, tr. H. B. Nisbet, 1975)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Only in the state does man have a rational existence…Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth...

Only in the state does man have a rational existence…Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth...

Only in the state does man have a rational existence…Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth...

Only in the state does man have a rational existence…Man owes his entire existence to the state, and has his being within it alone. Whatever worth...