“The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.”
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) German philosopher and anthropologist
Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
“History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.”
Original text: On voit que l'histoire est une galerie de tableaux où il y a peu d'originaux et beaucoup de copies. <br class="br">Variant translation: History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. <br class="br">Old Regime (1856), p. 88 http://books.google.com/books?id=N50aibeL8BAC&pg=PA88&vq=%22history,+it+is+easily+perceived%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1 <br class="br">1850s and later
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