The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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Nothing great in the world was 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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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 one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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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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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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