It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWhat 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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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 length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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