"We learn from history that we do not learn from history"
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"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."
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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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"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
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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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"Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness."
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"What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it."
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"I have the courage to be mistaken."
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"The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought."
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"All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam."
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"It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness."
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"Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great."
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"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them."
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"Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed."
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"Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation."
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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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"Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite."
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"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
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"The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance."
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"War is progress, peace is stagnation."
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