To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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 length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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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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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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