Quote of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - World history is the progress of...
Biography - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
German philosopher.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Translation
(German, French)
See also...
Quotes about freedom:
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
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.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Quotes for: progress
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.
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
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.
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