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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Biography : German philosopher.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
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What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History / 






The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right / 






The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy / 






...that this fear of erring is really the error itself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit / 






Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






Man is nothing but the series of his acts.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel






Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






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