“To discover the various use of things is the work of history.”
Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 1, pg. 42.
(Buch I) (1867)
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He proves from many Indian writings that it is an epithet of praise which is applied to various deities, and does not represent the conception of perfection or unity which we associate with it. This is a mistake, for Brahma is in one aspect the One, the Immutable, who has, however, the element of change in him, and because of this, the rich variety of forms which is thus essentially his own is also predicated of him. Vishnu is also called the Supreme Brahma. Water and the sun are Brahma.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Lectures on the philosophy of religion, together with a work on the proofs of the existence of God. Vol 2 Translated from the 2d German ed. 1895 Ebenezer Brown Speirs 1854-1900, and J Burdon Sanderson p. 27
Lectures on Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2
Source: Foundations of Psychohistory (1982), Ch. 2, The Independence of Psychohistory, p. 85.
“Discover the force of the heavens O Men:
Once recognised it can be put to use:
No use could be seen in unknown things.”
Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus:
Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.
De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus [On the more Certain Fundamentals of Astrology or On Giving Astrology Sounder Foundations] (written 1601; published 1602) in Opera Omnia, Vol. 1, Heyder & Zimmer, 1858, p. 417 (title-page)
Plato; or, The Philosopher
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.”