The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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World history is a court of judgment.
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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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Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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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 most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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