Friedrich Hegel

Philosopher German 1770 – 1831

Developed dialectical method; influential in philosophy of history.

390 quotes

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Dreams
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Knowledge
"The essence of love is the recognition of another's worth."
Love
"To understand oneself is to understand the universe."
Wisdom
"The highest form of art is the creation of a just society."
Justice
"Every end is a new beginning disguised."
Change
"The question is not whether we have the strength, but whether we have the will."
Strength
"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."
Inspiration
"The artist reveals what others merely see but cannot perceive."
Art
"In every crisis lies the seed of opportunity."
Hope
"The mind that is open to all truth is the mind that is free."
Freedom
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
Philosophy
"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."
Life
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
Motivation
"The history of the world is not the soil of happiness."
History
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."
Freedom
"Truth is its own evidence."
Truth
"The real is rational; the rational is real."
Philosophy
"Man is a thinking being, and thinking is his essence."
Knowledge
"Reason is the substance of the universe."
Wisdom
"The state is the realization of freedom."
Politics
"Art is the human appeal to the divine."
Art
"Music is the most immediate language to the soul."
Music
"The beautiful is the sensuous manifestation of the idea."
Beauty
"Education is the most perfect and efficacious invention."
Education
"Science is organized knowledge."
Science
"History teaches that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history."
History
"Unhappiness and pain characterize the lives of most human beings."
Happiness
"The negation of the negation is the affirmation of being."
Philosophy
"Self-consciousness is the source of all knowledge."
Knowledge