Tuesday, November 15, 2016

All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice

From The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx 1852. I never knew he was the source of this reasonably famous quotation.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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