By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELGenuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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