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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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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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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
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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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In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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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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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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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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There are Plebes in all classes.
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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