History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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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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.
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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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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views 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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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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