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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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On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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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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The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.
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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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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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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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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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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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God is the absolute truth...
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When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
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In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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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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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
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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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