What Is Rational Is Actual And What

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 True Is The Whole. But The Whole Is Nothing Other Than The Essence Consummating Itself Through Its Development. Of The Absolute It Must Be Said That It Is Essentially A Result, That Only In The End Is It What It Truly Is; And That Precisely In This Consists Its Nature, Viz. To Be Actual, Subject, The Spontaneous Becoming Of Itself.

History As The Slaughter-bench

Philosophy Is The History Of Philosophy.

Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deducted From It.