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...
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Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
art expression sublime
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
expression mind depth
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
free
To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
history history-and-historians learn
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
great passion
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
consciousness freedom progress
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
consciousness freedom history none
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
intelligent objectivity soul
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
party tragedy
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
god flow contradiction
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
powerful way reason
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.
science design desire
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.