Kathleen

kparent.bsky.social

15 July 2025 14:55

In other words, people don't learn from their mistakes, people are the mistakes.

Terry in Finchley

terry-in-finchley.bsky.social

15 July 2025 14:55

George Wilhelm Freidrich. And he said "“But what experience and history teach is this – that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” Bit more long winded.

goethean.bsky.social

15 July 2025 14:55

"Friedrich Hegel" isn't his name.

Pak Chewy Unf

pieholepete.bsky.social

15 July 2025 14:55

Slight correction: the portrait is in the University Auditorium, not the Baughman Center. My bad. Source: Me, I used to work at the performing arts center at UF about 25 years ago.

Pak Chewy Unf

pieholepete.bsky.social

15 July 2025 14:55

Maybe he was already deceased when they painted his portrait. There's a painting in the Baughman Center @ University of Florida of some VIP who was already deceased at the time. They used his corpse to paint his portrait. I wish I still had a photo of it. It's SUPER creepy.