People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELAn idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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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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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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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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