What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELWar is progress, peace is stagnation.
More Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.
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Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.
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The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.
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Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
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The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
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Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.
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Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
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Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
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The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.
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Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.
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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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