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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add:…

— Michael Shermer

“Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia , seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired after and…

— Karl Löwith

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.”

— Sarah Vowell

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL”

— Edward Luce

“On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.”

— William Faulkner

“Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too…

— Mary Stewart

“You should never, when facing some unbelievable tragedy, let one tragedy increase into two or three through your failure of will,” he would later…

— Alice Schroeder

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

— Aristotle

“When history repeats itself, historians repeat themselves.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov