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• Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Nature, Philosophical, Littles

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

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• World history is a court of judgment.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, History, World

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• The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  War, People, Want

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  And Love, Engagement, Virtue

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• What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Discovery, Comfort, Goes On

  Georg H. W. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2008). “Philosophy of Right”, p.102, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Ideas

  "History teaches us that man learns nothing from history" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, § 31, 1807.

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• It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Real, Faults, Individual

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  World, Looks, Reason

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

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• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Giving, Pressure

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Catholic, Position, Protestants

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• The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Views

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• History as the slaughter-bench

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Benches, Slaughter

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Ideas, Earth, Divine

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.133, re.press

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• It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Land, Intellectual

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• What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Real, Reasonable

  "Elements of the Philosophy of Right". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821.

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• The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Self, Humanity

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.226, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life And Death, Passing Away, Essentials

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• To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Looks, World, Aspect

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.117, re.press

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, History, Principles

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Perfect, Matter, Originality

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Freedom, Men, 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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Morality, Slave

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Food, Sight

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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• Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Powerful, Way, Reason

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• The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Truth, Essence, Development

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.11, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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