Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
teaching government people
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
courage struggle weakness
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
men history oxymoron
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
thoughtful thinking ideas
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.
two synthesis truth-is
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
philosophy esoteric made
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
happiness theatre world
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.
mean thinking ideas
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
art inspiration men
Education is the art of making man ethical.
two rights deep-thought
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
hero men heroism
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
mistaken
I have the courage to be mistaken.
independent self doubt
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
wisdom time thinking
We learn from history that we do not learn from history