| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27651 |
| QUOTATION: | An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831), German philosopher. Introduction, addition 4, The Philosophy of Right (1821, trans. 1942). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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