Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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 state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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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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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
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Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.
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Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.
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When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
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Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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