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The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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Animals are in possession of themselves their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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 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 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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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
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