Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Philosopher German 1770 – 1831

Developed dialectical idealism and absolute idealism system.

385 quotes

"Money is crystallized time and labor."
Money
"Health is the harmony of body and spirit."
Health
"Adventure is the quest for self-knowledge."
Adventure
"The dialectic is the pulse of reality."
Philosophy
"Education is the path to freedom."
Education
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
Philosophy
"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."
Philosophy
"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in the history of nations."
History
"The real is the rational and the rational is the real."
Truth
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."
Freedom
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
"World history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness in it are blank pages."
Happiness
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
History
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Education
"Art is the means by which we apprehend the Absolute."
Art
"The state is the realization of freedom, the absolute end-purpose of the world."
Freedom
"Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis but in an evolutionary synthesis."
Truth
"The true is the whole."
Philosophy
"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."
Life
"Death is the final stage of growth."
Death
"Spirit is the self-referential and self-generative ground of reality."
Philosophy
"The particular is real, but it is real only insofar as it participates in the universal."
Philosophy
"Consciousness requires struggle for self-development."
Knowledge
"Time is the realm where contradiction, as the negative, is real."
Time
"Change is the law of life."
Change
"The beautiful is the Absolute appearing to sense and imagination."
Beauty
"Without the discordant note, perfect concord is meaningless."
Music
"The abstract is the product of concrete analysis."
Philosophy
"What has been is no more; what shall be is not yet."
Time
"The content of the world-spirit's self-realization is freedom."
Freedom