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Two great currents prepared and made the Great French Revolution. One of them, the current of ideas, concerning the political reorganisation of States, came from the middle classes; the other, the current of action, came from the people, ...more
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead. These forms are not just distinguished from one another, they also supplant one another as mutually incompatible. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity in which they not only do not conflict, but in which each is as necessary as the other; and this mutual necessity alone constitutes the life of the whole.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
HEGEL

Leon Trotsky
“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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