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

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.

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.

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.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

What is is what must be.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.