“ Virtue is hamstrung by its own commitments, to goodness as the in-itself and to the suppression of individuality. The course of the world, by contrast, has no such sacrosanct commitments. Its essence is individuality, the power that wields the weapons that it shares with virtue. The good and its moments are at its disposal, to be respected or overridden as it pleases. ”
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation