Excellence cannot escape the fate of being thus robbed of life and spirit, of being flayed and then seeing its skin wrapped around lifeless knowledge and its vanity.
 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 fate vanity
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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