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Quotes from Lectures on the Philosophy of World History — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770–1831 Germany

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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its nature, it is our business to investigate.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

Our task does not require us to contemplate Nature as a Rational System in itself though in its own proper domain it proves itself such but simply in its relation to Spirit.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

What is now often said, that man need not know God, and may yet have the knowledge of this relation, is false. Since God is the First, He determines the relation, and therefore in order to know what is the truth of the relation, man must know God.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

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