Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Every moment is an experience.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

Faith and optimism come from love.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.