An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELNothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been 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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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