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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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To hang the laws so high that no citizen could read them is injustice, .. that the knowledge of the law is accessible only to those who have made it their professional study. At one time the administration of justice, which is concerned with the private interests of all members of the state, was in this way turned into an instrument of profit and tyranny, when the knowledge of the law was buried in pedantry and a foreign tongue, and the knowledge of legal process was similarly buried in involved formalities. One must discard the prejudice that the truth must be something tangible. God is nothing else than abstract being, which is the same as nothing.

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02Undated

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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03Undated

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

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04Undated

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

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05Undated

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

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06Undated

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

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07Undated

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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08Undated

World history is a court of judgment

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09Undated

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

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10Undated

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

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12Undated

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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13Undated

War is progress, peace is stagnation

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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

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16Undated

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

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17Undated

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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21Undated

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

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23Undated

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

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24Undated

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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