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...
acted action experience history learned people principles teaches
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
philosophy people possibility
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
government people lessons
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
war people want
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
ethical-principles two people
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
light people finite
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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.
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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.
free
To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
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.