Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — "The cunning of reason."
The cunning of reason.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Introduction (a core concept, not a single sentence quote, but a well-known phrase he used to describe how reason uses passions to achieve its ends)
Date: 1837 (posthumous)
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