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World history is a court of judgment.

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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What the English call comfortable is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
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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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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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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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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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