It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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 most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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