When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELOnce 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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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