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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 soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Character, Soul, Utterance

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1971). “Hegel's Philosophy of Mind”, p.265, Library of Alexandria

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• The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Religion, Absolute Truth, All Things

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Peter Crafts Hodgson (1988). “Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Intelligent, Objectivity, Soul

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2015). “Hegel's Philosophy of Mind”, p.275, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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• The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

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

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• The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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

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• Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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

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• When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Character, Mean, Quality

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

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• What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

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

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• What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Government, People, Principles

  'Philosophy of History' (1832) introduction

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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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• ...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fear, Fall, Errors

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• Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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

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• In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Science, Design, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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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 the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Essence, Unions, Welfare

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

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• In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.41, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Freedom, Political, Greek

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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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 must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, People, Possibility

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

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• When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Gone

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jesse Glenn Gray (1997). “On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures”, p.258, Hackett Publishing

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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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• The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Character, Purpose

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.25, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Death, Freedom, Cutting

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.360, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Space, Events, Division

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