Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

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• We learn from history that we do not learn from history

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Wisdom, Time, Thinking

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• Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Two, Synthesis, Truth Is

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Success, Creativity, Independent

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Limitation

  "Inwardness and Existence". Book by Walter A. Davis, 1989.

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• Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Rights, Two, Deep Thought

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Government, Teach, Nations

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• The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Struggle, Philosophical, Home

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.98, Oxford University Press

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• War is progress, peace is stagnation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  War, Progress, Stagnation

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• If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Want, Dies

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• I have the courage to be mistaken.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Mistaken

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• The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Certain, Knows

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• The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Courage, Struggle, Weakness

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• Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Racist, Enjoyed

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• God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  God, Atheism, Flow

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• Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life, Opposites, Ideas

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Giving, Progress, Spirit

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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• Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life, Valuable, Objects

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Fault Finding

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Men, Essence

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Men, Heroism

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Philosophical, Wings

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, West

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.360, Courier Corporation

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