Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and the most influential systematic thinker of the German Idealist tradition. His Phenomenology of Spirit traces the development of consciousness through stages culminating in absolute knowledge, while the Science of Logic and the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences set out a comprehensive metaphysical and historical system. The quotes below are attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, organized by topic.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Freedom
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Justice
-
Attributed to 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 on Knowledge
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Life
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Mind
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Truth
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“What is rational is actual; what is actual is rational.”
-
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“The truth is the whole.”