By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELNothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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 spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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 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 very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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