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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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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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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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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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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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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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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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
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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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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 the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.
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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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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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