Top 15 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

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

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

Education is the art of making man ethical

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.