Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPeople who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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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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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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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