By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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 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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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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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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