“ Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past. The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present. ”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation
| Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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| Source | Lectures on the Philosophy of History |
| Topic | freedom memory |
| Date | 1837 |
| Language | English |
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| Note | Translated by J. Sibree |
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