The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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