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10 sourced quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on history & civilisation, ethics & morality, leadership, governance & administration, power & corruption, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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.
The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its nature, it is our business to investigate.
Without being known too well, it [India] has existed for millennia in the imagination of the Europeans as a wonderland. Its fame, which it has always had with regard to its treasures, both its natural ones, and in particular, its wisdom, has lured men there.
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.