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Philosophical Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
- Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
- Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
- The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
- Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
- Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
- 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,…
- The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
- Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
- Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
- The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
- World history is a court of judgment.
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