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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 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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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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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 learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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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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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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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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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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India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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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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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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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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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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Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
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