Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Biography : German philosopher.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Quotes

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 /

passion

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 /

Man

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 /