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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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