Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

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.

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Satanic blindness comes from the influence of human teachers who teach from head knowledge and not heart knowledge combined.

True creation requires authority and authenticity.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

I'm not dying for things to say.