Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is the art of making man ethical.”

“I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.”

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

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“World history is a court of judgment.”

“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.”

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

“Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.”

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