The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
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Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
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But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it ...
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows th...
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The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is...
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Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be ...
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What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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