We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELDevotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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