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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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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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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 valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
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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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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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