Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
From Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
World history is a court of judgment.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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.
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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