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In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn
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The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
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...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
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