"It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further."
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"Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself."
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"Philosophy is the history of philosophy."
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"Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government."
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"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational"
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"India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge."
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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
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"The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized."
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"An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole."
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"The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself."
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"Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings."
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"The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary."
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"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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"The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study."
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"The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by."
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"Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes."
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"Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art."
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"Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West."
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"The true is the whole."
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