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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELEducation is the art of making man ethical.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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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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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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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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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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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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