People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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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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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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 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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