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Quote of George Bernard Shaw - If history repeats itself, and the...


Biography - George Bernard Shaw:

Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wenn die Geschichte sich wiederholt und immer das Unerwartete geschieht, wie unfähig muss der Mensch sein, durch Erfahrung klug zu werden.

French
Si l'histoire se répète, et l'inattendu se produit toujours, à quel point l'homme est-il incapable d'apprendre de l'expérience.




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

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

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.

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.











Quotes

George Bernard Shaw also said...


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





All great truths begin as blasphemies.





Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.





Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.





The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.





Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.












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