Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
856
AUTHOR:
Karl Marx (181883)
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
KARL MARX, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, part 1, in On Revolution (vol. 1 of The Karl Marx Library), ed. and trans. Saul K. Padover, p. 245 (1971).