What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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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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