Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 August 1770
CountryGermany
peace war philosophical
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
life valuable objects
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
liberty individual abstract
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
character liberty weight
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
philosophical rational
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
philosophical men understand-me
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
philosophical fall wings
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
philosophical littles achieve
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
philosophical giving events
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
government people lessons
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
life-and-death passing-away essentials
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
love want ifs
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
nature men mind
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
struggle philosophical home
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.