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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Inspirational Quotes (83)

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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
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On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.
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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
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The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
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In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
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Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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