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.
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.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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