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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

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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G. W. F. Hegel
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