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28 Most Famous Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes (HISTORY)

Top 28 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophical Quotes About Life, Passion, and History

“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.Pin
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.Pin
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.Pin
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.Pin
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.Pin
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.Pin
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.Pin
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.Pin
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.Pin
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.Pin
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.Pin
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned.Pin
What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.Pin
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.Pin
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.Pin
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Education is the art of making man ethical.Pin
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.Pin
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.Pin
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.Pin
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.Pin
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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.Pin
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.
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.Pin
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.
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.Pin
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.Pin
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.Pin
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.Pin
Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.Pin
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Short Biography

Born on 27 August 1770 in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher, author, and a key component among classical German philosophers.

In 1788 he entered the Tübinger Stift, a Protestant Seminary, and became roommates with Friedrich Hölderlin and F.W.J. Schelling, they inspired each other’s ideas and celebrated the victories of the French Revolution at the time.

From 1793-1796 he was employed as a house tutor for an affluent German family, and in 1797 he moved to Frankfurt, still under the same profession.

In Frankfurt, he wrote his famous essay, The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate.

In January 1801, Hegel moved to Jena and became an unpaid lecturer, in the same year he finished his first book The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s Systems of Philosophy.   

He became a rector for the Egidiengymnasium, a prominent school in Protestant Germany, in 1808-1816. Here he inspired many of his students and taught philosophical sciences. 

Georg Hegel is considered one of the greatest thinkers in Western Philosophy’s history. 

His many works include The Phenomenology of the Spirit (1807), Science of Logic (1812), and Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (1817).

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Here are the best Georg Hegel quotes so you can be inspired to be openminded in order to explore new ways of thinking. 

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of SpiritPin
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

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