Knowledge is aware not only of itself but also of the negative of itself, or its limit. To know one’s limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself.
 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 sacrifice limit
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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