By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEducation is the art of making man ethical.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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