Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The cunning of reason.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Introduction (a core concept, not a single sentence quote, but a well-known phrase he used to describe how reason uses passions to achieve its ends)

Date / Period

1837 (posthumous)

Source

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

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Explanation

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Method

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