Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

World history is a court of judgment.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conc...

History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externaliz...

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a lib...

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he f...

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern soci...

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but ...

World history is a court of judgment

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be ...

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of ...

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a myt...

War is progress, peace is stagnation

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is ...

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.