People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWhen 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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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