Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The truth is in the movement.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface (a core idea of dialectics, not a single sentence but a fundamental principle)

Date / Period

1807

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phprefac.htm

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