What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.
Wir lernen aus der Geschichte, dass wir uberhaupt nichts aus der Geschichte lernen.

Philosophers
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Born in Stuttgart in 1770, Hegel crowned German idealism by unifying history, spirit, and state through dialectics. His Phenomenology of Spirit traces consciousness to self-knowledge.
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Source: Vorlesungen uber die Philosophie der Geschichte (歴史哲学講義)Unverified