Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The famous principle, 'Know thyself,' is not merely an exhortation to self-knowledge, but also, and more fundamentally, a demand for knowledge of the nature of Spirit.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Part 3, Section 3, Chapter 2

Date / Period

1832 (posthumous)

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prspirit.htm

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