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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, bu..
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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wisdom
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
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The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass, whose movement and action would be elemental, irrational, savage, and terrible." "Public opinion deserves ... to be esteemed as much as to be despised; to be despised for its concrete consciousness and expression, to be esteemed for its essential fundamental principle, which only shines, more or less dimly, through its concre..
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there's nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen of a state with good laws"
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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reason
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level". (1807, SS 69)."
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised -- the question involuntarily arises -- to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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History, is a conscious, self-meditating process -- Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself. This Becoming presents a slow-moving succession of Spirits, a gallery of images, each of which, endowed with all the riches of Spirit, moves thus slowly just because the Self has to penetrate and digest this entire wealth of its substance. A..
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silence
meditation
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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escape
freedom
philosophy
flee
fleeing
german-idealism
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all determinations of right, morality, good, &c., because I am clearly master of them, and I know that if anything seems good to me I can easily subvert it, because things are only true to me in so far as they please me now.' This irony is thus only a trifling with everything, and it can transform a..
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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is--it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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substance
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the planet.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and -- if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it -- we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Devotion - a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular. By
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It is specially characteristic of the German that the more servile he on the one hand is, the more uncontrolled is he on the other; restraint and want of restraint--originality, is the angel of darkness that buffets us.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefuhle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu konnen.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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De uil van Minerva vliegt pas uit bij het invallen van de duisternis.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world wisdom]; for it is not only truth in and for itself, as the pure essence of things, but also truth in its living form as exhibited in the affairs of the world. We should not, therefore, contradict the assertion that the revolution received its first impulse from philosophy. Never since the su..
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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This Dialectic, which unsettles all particular judgments and opinions, transmuting the Evil into Good and Good into Evil, left at last nothing remaining but the mere action of subjectivity itself, the Abstractum of Spirit - Thought. Thought contemplates everything under the form of Universality, and is consequently the impulsion towards and production of the Universal.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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por lo poco que el espiritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extension de lo que ha perdido.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Frederick II may be mentioned as the ruler who inaugurated the new epoch in the sphere of practical life - that epoch in which practical political interest attains Universality [is recognized as an abstract principle], and receives an absolute sanction. Frederick II merits especial notice as having comprehended the general object of the State, and as having been the first sovereign who kept the general interest of the State steadily in view..
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Si la simple expression de la douleur et de la joie soulage le coeur, les epanchements de la poesie lyrique [ont] une mission plus haute ; celle, non de delivrer l'esprit du sentiment, mais de l'affranchir dans le sentiment. En effet, la domination aveugle de la passion consiste en ce que l'ame s'identifie tout entiere avec elle, au point de ne plus pouvoir s'en detacher, de ne pouvoir se contempler et s'exprimer elle-meme. Or la poesie del..
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SS10 . . . Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self-consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep, is nothing but dreams.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Man is an animal, but even in his animal functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as, for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science. In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal, he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as spirit.
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In a state which is really articulated rationally all the laws and organizations are nothing but a realization of freedom in its essential characteristics. When this is the case, the individual's reason finds in these institutions, only the actuality of his own essence, and if he obeys these laws, he coincides, not with something alien to himself, but simply with what is his own. Freedom of choice, of course, is often equally called 'freedo..
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the-state
institutions
hegel
rationality
laws
modernity
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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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