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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: tags: [philosopher]

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[his philosophy] can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more synthetic unity within the system of absolute idealism.

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This Dr. Macgoblin, soon to become a national monument, was as accomplished in syndicated medical journalism, in the reviewing of books about education and psychoanalysis, in preparing glosses upon the philosophies of Hegel, Professor Guenther, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Lothrop Stoddard, in the rendition of Mozart on the violin, in semi-professional boxing, and in the composition of epic poetry, as he was in the practice of medicine.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here

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he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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In comparison to her, Valechak was A Schlegel, and Charlotte a Hegel.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita