The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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