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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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.
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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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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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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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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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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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