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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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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G. W. F. Hegel
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Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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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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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
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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 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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