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• Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Occupation, Want, Serious

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1900). “The Philosophy of History”

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• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Animal, Soul, Body

  Georg H. W. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2008). “Philosophy of Right”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Ideas, Space, Development

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.149, re.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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• 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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• All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Reality, Objectivity

  "Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1832.

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• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, Important, Civilized Nations

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

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Grateful, Independent, Acceptance

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

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• The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Assuming, Deputies

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1900). “The Philosophy of History”

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• Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Teaching, Teaching Learning

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• It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Doe, Goes On, Physics

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  God, Pain, Play

  "The Phenomenology of Spirit". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1807.

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Break Through, Unity, Bud

  "The Phenomenology of Mind".

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• In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Past, Reason

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Duncan Forbes (1975). “Lectures on the Philosophy of World History”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Time, Children, Philosophy

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

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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.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passion, Individuality, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.124, re.press

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• The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Essence, Moments, Modern

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

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• Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Teaching, Government, People

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

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• The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spring, Character, Passion

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.21

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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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• On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Spirit, Stage

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.17

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• For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Objectivity, Ideas, Perfect

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