“War is progress, peace is stagnation.”

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

World history is a court of judgment.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.

Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of desperation.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

We’re all about finding the diamonds in the rough.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do things that get you by.  Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life.

Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Unless you are me, in my position, don’t ever tell me how to feel.