The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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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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