"To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality."
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"The more certain our knowledge the less we know."
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"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
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"The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed"
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"Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object."
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"Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth."
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"Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word."
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"Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously."
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"Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."
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"Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable"
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"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it."
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"To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back."
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"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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"Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy."
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom."
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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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"The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form."
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"Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue."
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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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