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“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is the art of making man ethical”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”
― Friedrich Hegel

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”
― Hegel, G. W. H.

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
― HEGEL

“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
― Fran Lebowitz