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Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Popular Quotes

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

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The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

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The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

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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…

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What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

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The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

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War is progress, peace is stagnation.

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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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