History
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"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Absolute knowledge is the goal of history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Desire is the first moment of consciousness."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Reality is a process, not a fixed state."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Freedom is knowing and understanding necessity."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The dialectic is the moving soul of speculative knowing."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"We are not born rational; we become rational through experience."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"I am interested in the past only insofar as it is active in the present."
Michel Foucault
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"We think that freedom is a right, but it is more than this—it is our very existence."
Michel Foucault
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"The 'truth' is always about power relations."
Michel Foucault
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"Confession is a ritual of discourse."
Michel Foucault
"If there is no possibility of resistance, there would be no power relations."
Michel Foucault
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"Knowledge is power."
Michel Foucault
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"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do."
Michel Foucault
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"All theory is created by and is useful for human beings."
Michel Foucault
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"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles."
Michel Foucault
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
Michel Foucault