To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
I have the courage to be mistaken.
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
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.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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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