The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

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.

I just want my stories to be mine.

We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

And when somebody knows you well, well there's no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there's no drug like that.

Little by little, one travels far

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.