"What experience and history teach is this …"

Nov. 24, 2024

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.1

— G. W. F. Hegel2 (Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction (1830, tr. H. B. Nisbet3, 1975) introduction)

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