Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this, - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
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Hegel is quoted as saying that “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history”. Here is what he actually said, in context - since context changes everything.
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