Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWe learn from history that we do not learn from history.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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