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“What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.”

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher, one of the most important representatives of German classical philosophy. Hegel's philosophical system has had a profound impact on the world. Hegel believed that the task of philosophy is to reveal the absolute spirit, emphasizing the importance of reason, history, and dialectics. more

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Book:Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art

Source: Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art

“The true is the whole.”

Book:Hegel's Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology

Source: Hegel's Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology

“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.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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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Book:Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

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Book:Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

Source: Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

“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.”

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Book:Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

Source: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

“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.”

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Book:The Logic of Hegel

Source: The Logic of Hegel

“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.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel