America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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 one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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