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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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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 East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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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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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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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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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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
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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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In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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