"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

Man, Men, Thought, Nothing, Unconscious

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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

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