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.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELPeople who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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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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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 valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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