Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan's autism.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.