It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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 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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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 spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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