War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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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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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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