#hegel

When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make gim a citizen of a state with good laws. ↗

— Hegel

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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel. ↗

— John Grierson

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Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there’s nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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...Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, “Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”... ↗

— John Geddes

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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