Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

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.

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

I was a wildflower that would continue to grow in the most unexpected weather.

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.