Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hidden treasure

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily