We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELAn idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing 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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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