What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed... — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents;… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
