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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Quote of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - What experience and history teach is...


Biography - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

German philosopher.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.


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Quote source: Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Internet Archive - Hegel's Ansichten über Erziehung und Unterricht (de) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'expérience et l'histoire nous enseignent que peuples et gouvernements n'ont jamais rien appris de l'histoire, qu'ils n'ont jamais agi suivant les maximes qu'on aurait pu en tirer.

German
Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, dass Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen wären, gehandelt haben.




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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.




Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.











Quotes for: History


Quotes

Quotes about history:


Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.





World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.





The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.





History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.











Quotes for: experience


Quotes

Quotes for: experience


Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.





Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.





Experience is the teacher of all things.





No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.











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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel also said...


The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.





The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.





...that this fear of erring is really the error itself.





Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.





Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.





Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.












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