Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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