“Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.”

—  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

So muß die Philosophie zwar die Möglichkeit erkennen, daß das Volk sich zu ihr erhebt, aber sie muß sich nicht zum Volk erniedrigen.
Introduction to the Critical Journal of Philosophy, cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 56

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So muß die Philosophie zwar die Möglichkeit erkennen, daß das Volk sich zu ihr erhebt, aber sie muß sich nicht zum Volk erniedrigen.

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