People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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