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
Born: 1770 - Died: 1831
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: 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
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes for: to learn
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.
You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
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.
Quotes for: experience
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