Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
Friedrich Hegel quotes about
consciousness freedom progress
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
aware changeable consciousness exactly expression felt forced general gives grades immediate implicitly instance instead law mean natural rather suddenly surrender surrounds turn viewed
Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
history history-and-historians learn
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
acted action experience history learned people principles teaches
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
inspirational motivational peace
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
success creativity independent
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
mistaken
I have the courage to be mistaken.
ethical-principles two people
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
two rights deep-thought
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
independent self doubt
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.
space division events
Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.
courage struggle weakness
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
two synthesis truth-is
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
thoughtful thinking ideas
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.