We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWhen we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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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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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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