When the trust in substance declines, spirit emerges as the all-important Self which regrets the loss of its essence and, elevated above the fray, recreates it in art.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source The Phenomenology of Spirit
Topic loss regret
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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