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.

Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, daß Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen wären, gehandelt haben.

G.W.F. Hegel

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Learning from the past History

Author

G.W.F. Hegel

Source

Lectures on the Philosophy of Wold History: Introduction

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Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Class conflict Oppression History

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Karl Marx
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The Communist Manifesto
Medium
Pamphlet
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Political literature Economic literature
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German
Time
1848 1840s 19th century
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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

Another quote originally in German

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Language
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Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.