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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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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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The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
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