"People who are too fastidious towards the finite……" — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away."
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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98 Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has 98 quotes on this site.
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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
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Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to…
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The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
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When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like…
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Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will.…
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A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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