By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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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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Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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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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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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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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