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• An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Pieces, Individual, Whole

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Days Gone By, Atheism, Proof

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• What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Rational

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Memories, Mean, Views

  "How to teach ... philosophy" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Firsts, Philosopher

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• Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Mean, Journey, Goal

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1990). “Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Pages, Soil, Blank

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1953). “Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History”

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Wisdom, Freedom, History

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Time, Art, Ends

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• America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Lying, Land, America

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Giving, Progress, Spirit

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• Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Ethical Principles, Two, People

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• The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Journey, Moments, Length

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.35, re.press

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• Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Mind, Doe

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Fault Finding

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Shoes, Needs, Littles

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1958). “Philosophy of right”

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• Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, West

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.360, Courier Corporation

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• Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Men, Essence

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  "The Ethics of Hegel, Translated Selections from His, Rechtsphilosophi".

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• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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• Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Made

  "Hegel: A Reinterpretation". Book by W. Kaufmann, 1966.

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• The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Expression, Mind, Depth

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sir James Black Baillie (1931). “The Phenomenology of Mind”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Malcolm Knox (1952). “The philosophy of right: The philosophy of history”

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Philosophical, Wings

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Morning, Prayer, Reading

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2002). “Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel”

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