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.
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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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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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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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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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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
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