What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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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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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People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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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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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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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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