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

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.

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 idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.