"We learn from history that we do not learn from history"
"When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world."
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Source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jesse Glenn Gray (1997). “On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures”, p.258, Hackett Publishing
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