“Education is the art of making man ethical.”

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

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.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

World history is a court of judgment.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art perpetuates beauty. Beauty is a symptom of the force that is nature. You are a force of nature, I love you.

I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.

It’s a new art form, showing people how little we care.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

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