“The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.”

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.

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.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it’s planted in stone.

It’s easier to accept the fact that you’re just not good enough. We all have a lot more than we think we have.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t