Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEvil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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