We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELOnly one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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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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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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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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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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