It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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 owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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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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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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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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