Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy.
Georg Hegel Quotes
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
—Georg Hegel
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
—Georg Hegel
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
—Georg 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 Hegel
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
—Georg Hegel
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
—Georg 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 Hegel
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
—Georg Hegel
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
—Georg Hegel
Education is the art of making man ethical
—Georg Hegel
Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
—Georg Hegel
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
—Georg Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
—Georg Hegel
Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
—Georg Hegel
When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
—Georg Hegel
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
—Georg Hegel
America 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 Hegel
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
—Georg Hegel
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
—Georg Hegel
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
—Georg Hegel
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights
—Georg Hegel
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
—Georg Hegel
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
—Georg Hegel
It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
—Georg Hegel
World history is a court of judgment
—Georg Hegel
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
—Georg Hegel
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
—Georg Hegel
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
—Georg Hegel