Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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