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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPeople who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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