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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 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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Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
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The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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What the English call comfortable is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
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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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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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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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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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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 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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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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Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
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