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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

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General Introduction to the Philosophy of History

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, as translated by H. B. Nisbet (1975): History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

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