An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEvil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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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 spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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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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