When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWhen we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEducation in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELToo fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWe learn from history that we do not learn from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELBy Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELIt is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELUneducated 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 HEGELIt is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELAmerica is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELOnly one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL