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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
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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
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Was vernünftig ist, das ist Wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
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There are Plebes in all classes.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
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.
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The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Das Wahre ist das Ganze.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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.
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To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken. ('Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse', Berlin, 1833, p. 35)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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 -
The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel