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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 owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.
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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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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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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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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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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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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Animals are in possession of themselves their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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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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What is reasonable is real that which is real is reasonable.
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It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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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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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
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