World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.
Die Weltgeschichte ist der Fortschritt im Bewusstsein der Freiheit.

Philosophers
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Born in Stuttgart in 1770, Hegel crowned German idealism by unifying history, spirit, and state through dialectics. His Phenomenology of Spirit traces consciousness to self-knowledge.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Other Quotes
I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.
What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the falling of dusk.
What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.
The true is the whole.
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