Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhen Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWhat history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAll education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIn history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel