Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Every president is not only a new president. He comes in a new age.

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the paper, everyone talks about that thing [in the news] that day, and all the subconscious really important stuff that's going on is being neglected. The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.