Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tra...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is a court of judgment.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Author Bio

  • NameGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • DescriptionGerman philosopher
  • AliasesG. W. F. Hegel
  • BornAugust 27, 1770
  • DiedNovember 14, 1831
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPhilosopher