“The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.

The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.