Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
World history is a court of judgment.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.