The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELIt is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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