People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWe learn from history that we do not learn from history.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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 important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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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 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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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