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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
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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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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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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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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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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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.
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On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
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