Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of agreement, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Introduction

Date / Period

1837 (posthumous)

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3394/3394-h/3394-h.htm

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