History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELIt is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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