The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.


Friedrich Hegel

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
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We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
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We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
ANONYMOUS
We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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Hegel remarks somewhe...
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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I slept my sleep--,
From deepest...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest sourc...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Appearance rules the world.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Great souls suffer in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoi...
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Apho...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to acc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not e...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE