Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel famous quotes

03-24-2025

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Inspirational #Motivational #Peace
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Success #Creativity #Independent
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Mean #Thinking #Ideas
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Wisdom #Time #Thinking
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
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
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Pages #Soil #Blank
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Courage #Struggle #Weakness
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

#Hero #Heroism #Scene
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Light #People #Finite
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

#Liberty #Be Careful #Interest
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
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Philosophy #Men #Views
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Independent #Self #Doubt
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Catholic #Position #Oppressed
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Men #Mind #Doe
Education is the art of making man ethical.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Art #Inspiration #Men
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Positive #Philosophical #Fault Finding
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

#Animal #Soul #Body
To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Looks #World #Reason
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Sacrifice #History #Principles
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Ideas
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Time #Children #Philosophy
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Death #Freedom #Cutting
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.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Character #Mean #Quality
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

#Passion #Form #Accomplished

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