Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELBy Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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 very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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