Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEducation 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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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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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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