Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes


"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."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Liberty)

"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
(Related: Knowledge, Interest, professionals)

"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Truth, Philosophy, Reality)

"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Love, Worship)

"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: World)

"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Heroes, State)

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: History, Progress, Consciousness, Freedom, World)

"The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many."
- 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
(Related: Life, Soul, Animals, Body, Possession, Right, Will)

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Nothing, Passion, World)

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Idea, Property, Thinking)

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Positive, Fault, Merit)

"Education is the art of making man ethical."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Art, Education, Man)

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Rights, World, Wrong)

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: History, Principles)

"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Beauty, Creation, Ugly)

"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
(Related: Providence, states, Value)

"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
(Related: Men, Thought, Nothing, Unconscious)

"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Nature, Power, Goodness)

"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Events, Help, Pressure)