People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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 spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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 is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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