“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.”

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.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.