Daily quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its nature, it is our business to investigate.
  • Part III. Philosophic History; § 21, as translated by John Sibree; p. 19, (1900 edition)
  • Variant translations:
  • World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom — a progress whose necessity we have to investigate.
    • As translated by Robert S. Hartman, in Reason In History, A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1953)
  • World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom — a progress which we have to recognise in its necessity.
    • As quoted by Kai Froeb, in "World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom" (March 2007)