Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 August 1770
CountryGermany
certain knows
The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
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.
essence substance spirit
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
philosophy philosophical mean
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
life valuable objects
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
light people finite
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
philosophy men views
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
liberty be-careful interest
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.
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.