The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELHistory is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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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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