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 HEGELThe 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.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
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The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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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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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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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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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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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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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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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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History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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