History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

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.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.