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

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.

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

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.

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

I like writing about things that aren’t real.

You are blind to reality and for that I am most proud.

The years teach much the days never know.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.