It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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 valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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