Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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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 experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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