Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Wisdom, Freedom, History

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.19, Courier Corporation

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Family, Children, Freedom

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1958). “Philosophy of right”

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Freedom, Men, Rights

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Freedom, Political, Greek

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.104, Courier Corporation

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Death, Freedom, Cutting

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.360, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.