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The true is the whole.
God is the absolute truth...
History as the slaughter-bench
There are Plebes in all classes.
I have the courage to be mistaken.
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
World history is a court of judgment.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
Education is the art of making man ethical.
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.