Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

When did one man ever civilize a people?

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.