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

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.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

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

Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

Free spirits have to soar. True Religion.

If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Forgiveness is not the fruit of our own efforts but rather a gift, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I think what is meant by animal spirits is to be pro-active on all things that you do.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Japan is in the process of regaining this animal spirit.

Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.