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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.