Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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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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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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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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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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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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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World history is a court of judgment.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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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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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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