People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
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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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