Individual/hegel

Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or hegel:

“When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others likeminded, one re- establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)

“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)