Through this self-conscious negation self-consciousness procures for itself the certainty of its freedom , produces the experience of that certitude, and thereby elevates it to truth.
 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 freedom certainty
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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