Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quotes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel sayings, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Worship is the community's cult in its purest, most inward, most subjective form--a cult in which objectivity is, as it were, consumed and digested, while the objective content, now stripped of its objectivity, has become a possession of mind and feeling. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The real is the rational and the rational is the real. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel