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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
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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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