People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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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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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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World history is a court of judgment.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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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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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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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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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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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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