Time is only necessary insofar as the Self has not yet conceptually incorporated the substance as it is for consciousness or, looking at it in another way, has not yet realized everything that the Self has in it.
 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 consciousness time
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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