It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained;... the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained;... the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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