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“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
― HEGEL

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Education is the art of making man ethical”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.”
― Georg Wilhelm Hegel, The Philosophy of History

“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky