The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELBy Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
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The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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