Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Files

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Files

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The Dialectibles

Life's not easy for an absolute idealist, but I do my darnedest to unify all my curious musings. 

21 Mar 18— 759 notes
Bum dogs, guys: Heraclitus put the kibosh on gifs of him and Anaxagoras running through a field of daisies. :(

18 Mar 18— 673 notes
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Just like my little flower bud here. I call her Juliet.

11 Mar 18— 432 notes
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. Man, am I passionate about cupcakes.

08 Mar 18— 897 notes
This guy: he's my fav. He totally tore up my homeland and dismantled the universities, but he did it like a boss.

05 Mar 18— 945 notes
So, here's what I came up with today: No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. I know it sounds totally classist, but really, those who rule are fit to rule. Just sayin'.

22 Feb 18— 643 notes
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. (See Deleuze – It's not all about negation.)

15 Feb 18— 982 notes
Romantic Art is flippin' transcendent, man. It just rises above the visible world like nothing.

09 Feb 18— 564 notes
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die. Easy-peasy.

02 Feb 18— 762 notes
All dogs do not go to heaven. Sorry. Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. I'm not sorry.

28 Jan 18— 497 notes
The ancient Egyptians: Best. Symbolic. Artists. Ever. They totally grasped geist. Man, I love the Sphinx. I want her to ask me a riddle.

17 Jan 18— 982 notes
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. Like, if it's here, in reality, then it totally works. If it exists—for reals—then that's just right. Existence makes it so.

12 Jan 18— 564 notes
Education is the art of making man ethical. Educate yourself: check me out on twitter #hegel.

02 Jan 18— 762 notes
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. That's the lesson that Simba learns, at any rate.

23 Dec 18— 497 notes
Heraclitus said I had to stop calling him Hershey's Kisses. It's an homage, man. Get with the program.