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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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• 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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• 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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• Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Ideas, Space

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fashion, Art, Real

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• In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Individual, Duty, Acquire

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• World history is a court of judgment.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, History, World

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Family, Children, Freedom

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Real, Rational

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• The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Force, Organisms

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller (1970). “Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Being Part Two of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Translated from Nicolin and Pöggeler's Edition (1959), and from the Zusätze in Michelet's Text (1847)”, p.371, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Scene, States

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

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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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• 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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• When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Liberty, Be Careful, Interest

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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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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