A THREAD on thought provoking ideas by Hegel:
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
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By nature, man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
By nature, man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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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 having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own.
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.
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Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
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