What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELNo man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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 very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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 one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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