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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 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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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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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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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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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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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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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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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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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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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 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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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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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