Thursday, 13 November 2025

HEGEL X We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

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Here are 5 of Hegel’s best one-line quotes — short, powerful, and often-cited — capturing his core ideas:


  1. “The real is rational and the rational is real.”
    — (Philosophy of Right, Preface)
    👉 Reality and reason are ultimately unified; what truly exists is intelligible.

  2. “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
    — (Philosophy of History)
    👉 A sharp paradox on human nature and our failure to heed the past.

  3. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
    — (Philosophy of History)
    👉 Passion drives human achievement, even in history’s grand movements.

  4. “Freedom is the insight into necessity.”
    — (Encyclopaedia Logic)
    👉 True freedom is not doing whatever one wants, but understanding and willing what is necessary.

  5. “The truth is the whole.”
    — (Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface)
    👉 Truth can’t be grasped in fragments; only the total system or process reveals it fully.


Would you like me to give Hart’s theological interpretation or critique of each of these five quotes next?

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