To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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