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Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.
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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
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The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
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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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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
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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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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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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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Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
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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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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.
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