We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELDevotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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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 most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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