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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

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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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
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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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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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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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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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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Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
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History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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