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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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Animals are in possession of themselves their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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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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War is progress, peace is stagnation.
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I have the courage to be mistaken.
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