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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."
"Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new."
"Every past is worth condemning."
"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
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