People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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