6 Quotes by Friedrich Hegel

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion