History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.
Die Geschichte als Ganzes ist eine fortgehende, allmählich sich enthüllende Offenbarung des Absoluten.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Major figure of German Idealism (1775-1854). At Tubingen aged fifteen with Hegel and Holderlin, he moved through Naturphilosophie, identity philosophy and a late philosophy of revelation — Proteus Schelling.
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