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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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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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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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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
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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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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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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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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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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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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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