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

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.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

Quality of life is more important than the quantity of days you live.

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Life is so fragile, yet we beat it to death and expect to live longer.

Rich isn’t an amount of money, it’s a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.