What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELIt is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around 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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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No 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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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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