When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
-
-
The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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 -
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
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 -
Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
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 -
Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL