“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”

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.

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.

Life gave me lemons, tequila, salt, and a knife. Death, you call the shots.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Sticks and stones break bones but words ferment like poison. A slow, painful death.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

I’m very scared to do it. What if I don’t come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I’ll be like, ‘Great. Now I have to start all over’.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That’s what my life was.

I’m aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.