No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
There are Plebes in all classes.
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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