Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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

Worship is the communitys 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.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

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

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

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

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

World history is a court of judgment.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.