Friedrich Hegel

Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
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(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
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The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
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Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
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To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
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The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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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.
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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
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In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.