Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

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.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

You exist in the minds of other people.

Right now counts forever.

God don't like complaints.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.