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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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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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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
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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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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
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God is the absolute truth...
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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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