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 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.
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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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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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By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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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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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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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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Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
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