Familiarity is the business of the ‘particular’, uncomprehending Self, the everyday Self that concentrates on the present and insofar as it thinks about the past at all, thinks about it from its own point of view.
 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 past present
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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