People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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