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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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 spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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