Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (22)

Birth:	27th August, 1770
Death:	14th November, 1831
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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• When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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

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

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• Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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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.

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

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

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• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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• An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

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• It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

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

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• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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• Education is the art of making man ethical.

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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.

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• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

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• To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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• World history is a court of judgment.

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• The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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• What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.

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