Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?”

“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art ...”

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, an...”

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”

“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”

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

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

“History, is a conscious, self-meditating process Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itse...”

“World history is a court of judgment”

“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, there...”

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

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

“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.”

“War is progress, peace is stagnation”

“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.”

“Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.”

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“World history is a court of judgment.”