Quotes by Georg Hegel

• World history is a court of judgment.
• When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
• We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
• Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
• To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
• The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
• The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
• Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
• An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
• Education is the art of making man ethical.
• Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
• I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
• It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
• Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.