“Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“An action is an aim of the subject, and it is his agency too which executes this aim: unless the subject were in this way even in the most disinterested action, i.e. unless he had an interest in it, there would be no action at all…. Impulse and passion are the very life- blood of all action: they are needed if the agent is really to be in his aim and the execution thereof. The morality concerns the content of the aim, which as such is the universal, an inactive thing, that finds it actualizing in the agent.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Conscience … lacks the power to externalize itself, the power to make itself into a Thing, and to endure being. It lives in dread of besmirching the splendour of its inner being by action and an existence; and in order to preserve the purity of its heart, it flees from contact with the actual world, and persists in its self-willed impotence to renounce its self which is reduced to the extreme of ultimate abstraction, and to give itself a substantial existence, or to transform its thought into being…. Its activity is a yearning which merely loses itself as consciousness becomes an object devoid of substance, and, rising above this loss, and falling back on itself, finds itself only as a lost soul. In this transparent purity of its moments, an unhappy, so-called ‘beautiful soul,’ its light dies away within it, and it vanishes like a shapeless vapour that dissolves into thin air.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“But what experience and history teach is this–that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“World history is a court of judgment.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized–the question involuntarily arises–to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“An action is an aim of the subject, and it is his agency too which executes this aim: unless the subject were in this way even inthe most disinterested action, i.e. unless he had an interest in it, there would be no action at all…. Impulse and passion are the very life- blood of all action: they are needed if the agent is really to be in his aim and the execution thereof. The morality concerns the content of the aim, which as such is the universal, an inactive thing, that finds it actualizing in the agent.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends–an attainment conditioned in this way by universality–there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony–periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Meanwhile, if the fear of falling into error sets up a mistrust of Science, which in the absence of such scruples gets on with thework itself, and actually cognizes something, it is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust…. What calls itself fear of error reveals itself rather as fear of the truth.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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