The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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 very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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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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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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