Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes on Life
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and the most influential systematic thinker of the German Idealist tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. | Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm. -
Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”
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“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.”
Miscellaneous writings of G.W.F. Hegel , translation by Jon Bartley Stewart, Northwestern University Press, 2002, page 247. -
“As quoted in Inwardness and Existence (1989) by Walter A. Davis, p. 18”
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.