Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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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 important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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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