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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
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Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
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What the English call comfortable is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
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