Thoughts of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher. He is considered one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin), German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.

Great Thoughts of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."

"What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."

"Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two."

"We learn from history that men don't learn anything from history"

"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures."

"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."