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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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 length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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