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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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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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 people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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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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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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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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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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