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Biography - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

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

World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Die Weltgeschichte ist der Fortschritt im Bewusstsein der Freiheit.

French
L'histoire universelle est le progrès dans la conscience de la liberté.




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Quotes for: freedom


Quotes

Quotes about freedom:


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.











Quotes for: History


Quotes

Quotes about history:


What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.





What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.





If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.











Quotes for: progress


Quotes

Quotes for: progress


A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.





To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.





The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.





Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.





The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.





Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!











Quotes for: consciousness


Quotes

Quotes for: consciousness


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.





It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.





Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.





Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.





Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.











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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel also said...


What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.





The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.





...that this fear of erring is really the error itself.





Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.





Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.












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