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...
consciousness freedom history none
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
consciousness freedom progress
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
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.
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.
pages soil periods
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
engagement and-love virtue
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
worship divine fairs
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
catholic position oppressed
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
time children philosophy
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
expression mind depth
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
pieces individual whole
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
days-gone-by atheism proof
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
peace war philosophical
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.