Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELUneducated 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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing 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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