We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

The best choices will always be the most loving.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.