Man is not free, when he is not thinking; for except when thus engaged he sustains a relation to the world around him as to another, an alien form of being.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Topic alien world
Date 1837
Language English
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Note Translated by J. Sibree
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