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The quotations of
German philosopher, sociologist and economist
1820–1895
7 quotes, most often on Freedom.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.