We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWhen 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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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 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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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