People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory 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 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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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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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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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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