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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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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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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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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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