Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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It 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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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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