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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Inspirational Quotes (83)

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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.
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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
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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.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
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Animals are in possession of themselves their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
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Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
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In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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There are Plebes in all classes.
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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
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The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
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