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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1770–1831

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“Nothing important — a mind, a friendship, a nation, an idea — arrives finished. It becomes what it is by struggling through what it is not.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 164

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“Truth is not a fixed answer but a living process: ideas, people, and whole civilizations develop by working through their own contradictions, and history itself is the story of humanity slowly waking up to freedom.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 164

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