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Here are 5 of Hegel’s best one-line quotes — short, powerful, and often-cited — capturing his core ideas:
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“The real is rational and the rational is real.”
— (Philosophy of Right, Preface)
👉 Reality and reason are ultimately unified; what truly exists is intelligible. -
“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. -
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
— (Philosophy of History)
👉 Passion drives human achievement, even in history’s grand movements. -
“Freedom is the insight into necessity.”
— (Encyclopaedia Logic)
👉 True freedom is not doing whatever one wants, but understanding and willing what is necessary. -
“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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