Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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 length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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