Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Wisdom, Time, Thinking

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Courage, Struggle, Weakness

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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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• 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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• War is progress, peace is stagnation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  War, Progress, Stagnation

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life, Opposites, Ideas

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• Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Reasonable

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• Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Evil, Perceive

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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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• Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Men, Computer

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• There are Plebes in all classes.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Class

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• We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Shoes, Needs, Littles

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1958). “Philosophy of right”

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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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• To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Abstraction

  "Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1832.

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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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• Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Made

  "Hegel: A Reinterpretation". Book by W. Kaufmann, 1966.

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