Georg Hegel

Georg HegelGeorg 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

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

—Georg 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 Hegel

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

—Georg Hegel

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

—Georg Hegel

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

—Georg Hegel

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

—Georg Hegel

Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.

—Georg Hegel

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

—Georg Hegel

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

—Georg Hegel