On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

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.

Eyes can't speak ...but some people can understand what eyes want to speak!!!

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

I play harder when my family is watching.

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Kaylee, you're adding two and two and coming up with seven.