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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 real is the rational and the rational is the real.
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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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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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