The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEvil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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