People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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