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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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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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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
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On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
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The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.
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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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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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Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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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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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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