3 Posts found for Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

What is “familiarly known” is not properly known, just for the reason that it is “familiar.” When engaged in the process of knowledge, it is the commonest form of self-deception, and a deception of other people as well, to assume something to be familiar, to give assent to it on that very account.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

We can be complete, conscious beings only when we have known ourselves through the eyes of another.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Source: paraphrased from The Phenomenology of Mind | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Philosophy, Psychology | Behavior