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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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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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In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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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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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
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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 nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
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