Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Should we not be concerned whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel