Quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

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

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

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

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

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.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

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