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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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