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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The great thing however is, in the show of the temporal and the transient to recognize the substance which is immanent and the eternal which is present.
— Works, VII, 17.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
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He built a philosophical system to explain all of reality as a single, unfolding process — spirit knowing itself through history's contradictions. The method he used to get there, a relentless dialectical grinding-down of one-sided concepts into higher unities, became more famous than the system itself.
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Hegel was born in Stuttgart in 1770, his life bridging the Enlightenment and the Romantic turn, his thinking marked by the French Revolution and Napoleon's campaigns. He developed absolute idealism to overcome what he saw as the false dualisms plaguing modern philosophy, presenting reality as a unified whole driven by Geist — humankind coming to rational self-knowledge through history. His major works, the Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807 and the Science of Logic between 1812 and 1816, laid out this vision in exhaustive detail. He reached the peak of his academic career at the University of Ber…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is.
— Miscellaneous writings of G.W.F. Hegel, translation by Jon Bartley Stewart, Northwestern University Press, 2002, page 247.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality.
— Difference of the Fichtean and Schellingean System of Philosophy, cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 49
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
— As quoted in Inwardness and Existence (1989) by Walter A. Davis, p. 18
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome.
— Hegel, Philosophy of Mind (quoted by W. Wallace & A. V. Miller in Philosophy of Mind, Oxford 2010; also quoted in other words by Slavoj
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