History As The Slaughter-bench

The State Is The Divine Idea As It Exists On Earth.

What Is Reasonable Is Real; That Which Is Real Is Reasonable.

Since Philosophy Is The Exploration Of The Rational, It Is For That Very Reason The Apprehension Of The Present And The Actual, Not The Erection Of A Beyond, Supposed To Exist, God Knows Where, Or Rather Which Exists, And We Can Perfectly Well Say Where, Namely In The Error Of A One-sided, Empty, Ratiocination.

What Experience And History Teach Is This - That Nations And Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Any Lessons They Might Have Drawn From It. Variant: What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It.

The Beginning Of Religion, More Precisely Its Content, Is The Concept Of Religion Itself, That God Is The Absolute Truth, The Truth Of All Things, And Subjectively That Religion Alone Is The Absolutely True Knoweldge.