What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELBy Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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