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Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

So muß die Philosophie zwar die Möglichkeit erkennen, daß das Volk sich zu ihr erhebt, aber sie muß sich nicht zum Volk erniedrigen.

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Introduction to the Critical Journal of Philosophy, cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 56

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