Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel II

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

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 deduced from it.

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

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

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

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.