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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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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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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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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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