What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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 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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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