Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“When we say, "God is love," we are saying something very great and true. But it would be senseless to grasp this…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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

“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I have the courage to be mistaken.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel