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 HEGELOnly one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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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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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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 one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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