It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELThe spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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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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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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