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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELArt does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been 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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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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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