It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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 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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