The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

wisdom time thinking

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

truth-is synthesis two

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

motivational inspirational peace

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

creativity independent success

Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

struggle love heaven

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

philosophical struggle home

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

teach nations government

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

deep-thought rights two

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

dies want love

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

limitation

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

want war people

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

enjoyed racist

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

essence heart men

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

mistaken

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

views memories mean

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

goal journey mean

Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

philosophical real philosophy

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

stagnation progress war

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

proud action men

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

opposites life ideas