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Quotes from Lectures on the Philosophy of History — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770–1831 Germany

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)

What we call principle, aim, destiny, or the nature and idea of Spirit, is something merely general and abstract. Principle — Plan of Existence — Law — is a hidden, undeveloped essence, which as such — however true in itself — is not completely real.

Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)

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