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

Die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dammerung ihren Flug.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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.

View this figure's profile

Source: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (法の哲学) 序文Verified

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Other Quotes

World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.

What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.

The true is the whole.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

I saw this world-spirit riding out through the city on reconnaissance.

Related Quotes

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

-- Karl Marx

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel