The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

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.

Cash flow never comes from making people redundant.

What we are, we see the reflection in others.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.