History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELNo man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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 is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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